At the 903 Hospital in Jianguyo, China, doctors and nurses are overwhelmed by the devastation caused by the earthquake. They work around the clock to serve the influx of victims in addition to their everyday patients. Because the hospital building is no longer safe to be occupied, it has became somewhat of an open-air facility, with most of the patients living outside. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)
Doctors and nurses tend to an injured victim at 903 Hospital in Jianguyo, China, where care is being provided outdoors because the hospital building is not safe to occupy. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)
An earthquake victim is moved at the outdoor facilities of the 903 Hospital in Jianguyo, China, Friday. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)
Treadmills have become beds for earthquake victims at the Jiuzhou Stadium in Mianyang, China. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)
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Earthquake victims lie beneath canopies made from blankets Friday at 903 Hospital in Jianguyo, China, where care is being provided outdoors because the hospital building was damaged in the quake and is unsafe. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)
A young earthquake victim with a broken leg watches a woman having her head stitched at the 903 Hospital in Jianguyo, China. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)
Thousands of earthquake victims are camped out at the Jiuzhou Stadium in Mianyang, China, on Friday. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)
An injured child is comforted by his parents in his hospital bed at the 903 Hospital in Jianguyo, China, on Friday. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)
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Four-year-old earthquake victim Zhang Jingi is comforted by his mother, Yang Baozhi, at a hospital in Jianguyo. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)
A young earthquake victim grimaces in pain Friday as doctors at the 903 Hospital examine his hand after fingers were amputated. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)
Family members look for lost loved ones on lists at the evacuee center of Jiuzhou Stadium in Mianyang, China, on Friday. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)
Fatigue shows on faces of earthquake survivors as they wait to get on a truck at the Zipingpu Dam near Dujiangyan. (Vincent Yu / Associated Press)
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A man is rescued from the debris of a collapsed building 97 hours after Monday’s earthquake in Beichuan County. (Li Xiaoguo / Associated Press)
Residents run for safety as an aftershock hit the earthquake damaged town of Beichuan. (Mark Ralston / AFP/Getty Images)
A family cries after their mother’s dead body was found near the rubble of a collapsed building in Dujiangyan. Friday, May 16, 2008. (Vincent Yu / Associated Press)
Rescue workers search for survivors near the epicenter of Monday’s quake in Yingxiu. A strong aftershock sparked landslides Friday near the epicenter of this week’s powerful earthquake, burying vehicles and again cutting off ravaged areas of central China. (Ng Han Guan / Associated Press)
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Exhausted rescue workers sleep on damaged pavement in Beichuan. (Mark Ralston / AFP/Getty Images)
Chinese soldiers transfer earthquake relief supplies to boats at the Zipingba dam. (Guang Niu / Getty Images)
A Chinese medical worker sprays disinfectant at a collapsed building in Shifang. (AFP / Getty Images)
Chinese soldiers uses a trolley to transfer an elderly woman in Beichuan county. (Andy Wong / Associated Press)
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Earthquake survivors sit in a truck as they await evacuation from Beichuan, one of the areas hit hardest by the earthquake. (Mark Ralston / AFP/Getty Images)
Earthquake survivors look at lists of missing persons at the local sports stadium in Mianyang City, where more than 10,000 people have taken refuge. (Peter Parks / AFP/Getty Images)
Earthquake survivors look through a pile of donated clothes at Jiuzhou Stadium in Mianyang. (Peter Parks / AFP/Getty Images)
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao comforts an earthquake survivors in Qingchuan County. (AFP / Getty Images)