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Many of the patients at Mom of Mercy walk for days in order to arrive at the hospital's gates. Others are carried by friends, or endure the jarring ride over dirt paths in the rear of the exceptional pickup that is accessible in the Nuba Pile region of southern Sudan. Most are victims of the warfare that is waged from the air against the people of Nuba by the Sudanese federal government for a long time. All Nubans know to seek refuge in a foxhole when they hear the drone of the bombers overhead; and they all know, in the aftermath, is to bring the maimed to Dr. Tom Catena, the only real surgeon for thousands of square mls. Dr. Tom, as he's known throughout Nuba, has resided at the hospital for seven years. Apart from the walk that he makes each morning to a tiny chapel, he hardly ever leaves Mom of Mercy. He spends his days amputating limbs, sewing up wounds, and keeping lives that would surely have no chance of being preserved if it weren't for Catena and the Nuban staff that, with no formal education, have discovered to treat the horrors which come through their entry doors every day.
