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This is a picture of nurse Reina Xiomara Blucha (44), as she is finishing up her morning shift in the emergency department of the ‘Hospital Escuela’. She's pictured walkinf down a hospital hall with her right hand on on her head. On her right are people on a stretcher.

  • The nurse, Reina Xiomara Blucha (44), is finishing up her morning shift in the emergency department of the ‘Hospital Escuela’. She has attended many gang members during her career at the hospital and says the violence of the Mara’s transcends even beyond the gates of the hospital. “Sometimes gang members enter [the hospital] to ‘finish the job’, or come to supervise the emergency treatment we provide to their wounded ‘comrade’, threatening staff and weaving weapons around”, 07/07/2023. Hospital Escuela, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

    Fritz Pinnow/TNH

  • Themes Conflict
  • Regions Honduras

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