Chapter 130: Admiration for doctors

Aria rushed to the emergency room with Preston right behind her. The hospital was in chaos due to the large number of patients getting admitted at once. It was a case of an accident between a school bus and a garbage truck. The driver of the truck had lost control and had rammed into the school bus which was right in front of it in the lane. The impact was so strong that both the vehicles were pushed forward by a large distance and finally, the small school bus had crashed right into the building when it was supposed to take a right turn.

Most of the children on the bus had suffered severe injuries due to the accident. The on-lookers had immediately called the ambulance of the nearby hospital which was the Regal Medical Hospital. Due to this, the hospital was in a state of panic. The doctors and nurses working the morning shift were yet to arrive and the ones who had stayed the previous night were tending to the injured. 

Aria opened the ward door for Preston to step in and he laid the kid on the hospital bed. She took a new pack of cotton swabs and started to clean the boy's head which was slightly covered with blood.

"Thank you for your help. Can you see if any nurse or a ward boy is around? I need assistance." She said not looking at Preston.

Ryder, who had accompanied Aria and Preston till the ward, heard her and gestured to Preston that he would look for a nurse. The man nodded and conveyed the same to Aria. "My friend is looking for a nurse. I will assist you till then."

The boy suddenly started to behave weird. He was jerking heavily, his hands and legs were convulsing. Aria stopped cleaning the blood and she loosely but securely held his hands. "Keep a track of the time. I need to record it." She ordered which Preston followed without any objections.

The boy started to drool the next moment and he grunted in pain. He was mumbling some incoherent words. Aria tried to calm the boy by fanning around him and patting his arms.

"What is happening?" Preston asked, his eyes not moving from his watch. A few seconds had passed, but the boy had not stopped moving.

"He is having a seizure. If my assumptions are true, then this might be a case of a brain hemorrhage. I mean bleeding in the brain. But I hope I am wrong. Hemorrhage is a serious problem and the death rate is high in this condition is high."

It took a few more seconds for the boy to calm down. His breathing was still erratic and he was taking long, deep breaths. Aria connected the ventilator to his mouth and regulated his breathing until it returned to normal. She then took an IV bag and injected dilute phenytoin to stop the kid from having another seizure and attached it to his hand.

"How many seconds?"

"42." Preston answer immediately. He was watching Aria's movements carefully, ready to help her any moment. Aria shook her head. This was bad. At that instant, a nurse came running along with Preston.

"Nurse, prepare a CT scan and cerebral angiography. The child may have a hemorrhage. Get any neurosurgeon available. It's an emergency, we might to operate on him." Aria ordered. The nurse nodded.

"I need help." She said and went out. Within a few minutes, the nurse had returned with a patient shifting roller. Preston helped her lay the child on the roller and both Aria and the nurse hurried to perform the scans.

Preston stayed behind with Ryder, his eyes still fixed on the doctor who he helped a few minutes ago.

"Wow, that was quite stressful. My admiration for doctors has increased ten folds." Ryder commented, rubbing his palms. 

"Yes. They have to do a lot of things to keep the patient alive. Definitely, they are to be appreciated." Preston followed suit.

"What do you think happened to the child?" Ryder had gone to fetch the nurse. So, he did not hear Aria explaining the possible problem in the kid.

"It may be a case of bleeding in the brain." 

"Damn. He is just a kid. I hope he survives."

"Me too," Preston said and the duo returned to Valarie's ward.

Meanwhile, on the other side.

Aria and the nurse reached the scanning room.

"I need the results immediately. It is an emergency." Aria said to the radiologist who was in charge of the scanning. Grasping the situation, he got to work immediately. "I'll call you once the reports are done." He said.

Aria nodded and then left the room. She had other patients to attend to. She ran back to the reception. Most of the kids who had serious injuries were being provided with a medical emergency. But still, there were a few kids, who had minor injuries, waiting to get treated.

Aria went to them. Due to the shock and the pain, the kids had not stopped crying. This was a given considering that were not even teenagers. She was carrying a tray with her. So, she could easily provide them the first aid. 

She went to the first child. It was a girl and she had scraped her arm quite bad. The child was crying hysterically, calling out to her parents. The news of the accident had spread as soon as it had happened and many parents had already reached the hospital. But some parents were yet to arrive. 

"Hi, sweetheart." Aria kneeled in front of the little girl. The girl glanced at her but didn't stop crying.

"What do we have here?" Aria said as she held the girl's injured arm.

"Oh. Uh. Tsk, tsk. This looks bad." She observed the girl's hand and Aria words made her cry harder.

"Shall I show you some magic?"

Aria securely held the girl's hand lest she should pull it back. She then started cleaning it thoroughly while blowing air on the wound. "I am going to make this wound go away." 

The girl blinked, her tears falling on her cheeks. She looked pitiful with her red eyes and puffy nose. "Beautiful girls don't cry. It makes them look ugly." Aria stated. By then she had finished cleaning and was placing the cotton on the wound.

"I am not ugly." The girl argued with her cute voice.

"I never said you are ugly. I said you are beautiful. Did I say you are ugly? Did I?" Aria first looked at the girl and then at the other kids who were sitting beside her. Nobody reacted making Aria sigh.

"See, your wound is gone." She pointed the bandaged arm to the girl. She blinked twice and looked forth between her wounded hand and Aria. She had stopped crying. 

"Good girl." 

Aria then treated the other kids who were sitting beside the girl. They had minor injuries. So, it did not take much time for her to complete her work. At that moment, the nurse who had helped her in the emergency ward came running, her face pale and anxious.

"What happened nurse? Are the reports out?" Aria asked in concern. The nurse panted for a few seconds.

"Doctor, we do not need the reports. The boy died just a few minutes ago."