31.   Many city hospitals keep rape victims waiting for hours while the staff treats stab and gunshot wounds.

32.   Marcos said that federal regulators had unfairly singled out city hospitals for criticism.

33.   Most had been searching city hospitals since the blast in a desperate attempt to find their missing relatives alive.

34.   Officials in emergency rooms at other city hospitals say they, too, are seeing an upswing in people, especially children, coming to them for help.

35.   Others are going to be installed in some city hospitals to provide uninterrupted power during blackouts, Power Authority officials said.

36.   Over time, the condition of many mentally ill patients deteriorated and they ended up homeless and dependent on the emergency rooms of city hospitals.

37.   Responding to Butler, Hill said that Giuliani had steadfastly refused to grant ironclad job security protections to workers in city hospitals.

38.   Residents said that street fighting around the main city hospital, less than a mile from the presidential palace, was intense.

39.   Relatives of both families opened fire on each other in the city hospital, wounding a nurse and guard, the hospital said.

40.   She recalled how when she worked at city hospitals, firefighters would be brought in weak from smoke inhalation or worse.