Congestion in front of him looking bored doctors made small talk at a table in the corner of the otherwise empty room. Outside the ambulance bay was deserted.
"It's good - and unusual," said Verbicaro, 60, a senior surgeon and director of Getúlio Vargas Hospital in northern Rio de Janeiro, until recently, considered a champion of Latin America in the case of a gunshot wound. "It's a relief."
Long ago, the flow of bloodied and mangled victims of the ball in the team of Getúlio Vargas, a benchmark in the world with a single bullet treatment - shocking examination of the case concerning the devastating effects Firearms, hospital Warzone without war. Over 3000 cases were registered during the last five years, averaging 50 per month. In 2007 the best year record of 767 gunshot wound victims was in. Last year there was 583rd
"It 's been a time when the 12-hour shifts as a weekend ... you get an average of five gunshot victims. This was a routine," said Verbicaro, Air Force reservists, the hospital surrounded by what were until recently part of South America, the strongest in the slums. "Often we can not even go to the hospital since the shooting ...."
But no more. The doctors say that the fledgling government drive to "pacify" the slums of Rio - freeing each favela heavily armed drug gangs, as the time when the city hosts the Olympic Games in 2016 - has sent a series of strokes in patients freefall.
After the scale of military operation in November, in which security forces have invaded and are still two huge favelas near the hospital, the number of hospitalizations for gunshot wound in the Getulio Vargas fell almost 50%. In February, there were 29 cases of what doctors called an "enterprise" - a piercing gun. In the first 11 days of March, there were only four.
"Compared to what it was like this weird: the fact that we used to get in a week, we now receive in a month," said Dr. Maria Cristina Lopes, head of emergency.
. Victims came around the clock, it was not just the night or weekend - it was every day since the occupation of the decline has been very .. "
Calmly came to the price. In November, when more than 1,600 members of the security forces attacked the slums in a collision with people, 94 were gunshot victims, including a Reuters photographer and Rosangela Alves Barbosa, a student of 14 years which is was shot in the chest in a shootout near his home.
Lopez, who saw his team struggle in vain to keep Alves, said it was the last child has brought the gunshot wounds. "There is nothing worse than seeing a child die from a stray bullet," he said. "Children are not born to die as children."
Already, the ministry is not the place for the faint of heart. Victims of accidents on motorways are common and terrifying shoots damage continue to emerge, although less frequently. Previously, surgeons have treated a 32 year old man who was taken to the police on the highway with several blows to the head and chest. "Liver damage. Chest tube. Jaws of Destruction listed Verbicaro, flipping through a blue sky medical card patients. "It is very good. He had a gun."
But the notable changes. During his last visit to the custodian of the hospital in 2008 were 12 victims held in so-called "Red Room", including the little three year old boy with shrapnel A police officer with facial burns from a hand grenade and a man of 21, shot in the head and supplied by the guarded entrance to the hospital, bloody carpet.
Currently Verbicaro turned the hospital to show some recent improvements - a coat of paint, a new chapel in the family, the new computer tomography.
When asked what she expected the rest of his shift, Lopez replied: "Serenity".
Pediatrician 46-year-old even hoped that the relaxed routine in the hospital could help to stop smoking.
"I'm getting there," she said, almost a complete set lying on his desk. "As the stress level decreases, so will the number of cigarettes."
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