Byline: Associated Press
GOMA, Zaire -- After long delays at the Zaire-Rwanda border, 16 trucks and jeeps packed with food and medicine arrived Monday at the local soccer stadium, where aid workers haggled with rebel leaders over which supplies should go to each of Goma's three hospitals.
Just across the road, at the main hospital, doctors were desperate for any drugs or medical equipment -- and despairing that whatever aid they do receive cannot possibly be enough.
``We're in a sad state,'' said Dr. Patrick Baluba, the hospital's technical director. ``More than half my staff has fled into the forests, and I'm having to turn away many patients …
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