"There is no food!" cries an old man in a blue gown, to no one in particular.
Last week's powerful earthquake and tsunami heaped untold new misery on those already suffering - thousands of elderly, infirm and sick people in hospitals that were laid to waste by the violent shaking and the walls of water that followed.
There are no figures yet on how many hospitals were ravaged, but few could have escaped unscathed given the scale of the destruction.
Text: AP
Image: In this photo released by Japanese Red Cross Society, survivors receive medical treatment by doctors and nurses of Japanese RC's National Disaster Response Team at the Ishinomaki Red Cross Hospital in Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture on Saturday, March 12, 2011, one day after the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami hit northeastern Japan. (Photographs copyright AP)
