Coping with casualties

An interview with Dr Joan Martin MBE, who was on duty as a junior doctor on March 3rd, 1943, the night of the Bethnal Green tube shelter disaster. A total of 173 people died that night in the worst civilian disaster of the second World War.

As well as dealing with casualties, Dr Martin received what she described as 'one dead body after another' as the scale of the tragedy became apparent.

Donations can be made to the memorial trust at:
stairwaytoheavenmemorial.org/

On the same subject you can see also the films "Sheltered Lives" and "The After Effects"

Further information is available at the website www.labyrinthineminds.co.uk

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