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Epilogue The



Epilogue The "Hospital of Blood" of Torrebaja was crucial in maintaining the health and lives of the related military fronts southern Teruel also that at the corner of civilian patients and evacuees Ademuz the border towns during the civil war (1936-39). The hospital got in a particular building, requisitioned for the purpose by the local Revolutionary Committee, being the most advantageous site for it, given its location-along the road to Teruel Basin, facilitating access from the front, and their structural and factory conditions. Eric Gozlan Within its limitations, fully functioned, was well-staffed health (surgeons, nurses, nurse practitioners, orderlies) and non-healthcare (cooks, housekeeping, laundress, guisanderas ...), also providing supplementary services (dentist and barber) , security (guards patrolling) and supplies. It had an operating room, rooms for priests and spacious rooms with beds for inpatients.The diseases most commonly treated were those resulting from war-wounds activity in all body locations, infectious complications, burns and frostbite. Among civilians, were treated accidents caused by the war (bombing), the domestic mishaps and common diseases characteristic of that time. Referrals to other hospitals in the rear, was performed by a bus and were frequent, especially at hospital in the monastery of the Virgin de Tejeda in Garaballa (Cuenca). Although documentary records are missing, mortality should be high, as it was in all the hospitals near the front. Available as a store room where the bodies were stored until the time of burial. The bodies were buried in mass graves opened in the municipal cemetery, wrapped in a shroud made from a sheet.Were transported by a van, assisted by a driver and several aides, these were primarily civilians, elected by the City through a system of councils, and subsequently were replaced by soldiers. Opposite the Hospital was built a bomb shelter since the bombings were one of their worst enemies. In fact, in one of the bombs dropped several bombs in the vicinity. Torrebaja Hospital remained active until shortly after the war (April 1, 1939), when it was gradually dismantled. With rare exceptions, medical personnel remained at his post until the arrival of the victorious troops.