pGuns and shrapnel wounds in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo have been squeezed into overwhelmed hospitals in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, following the city-backed M23 rebels in Rwanda.

According to the United Nations, at least 2,900 people have been killed and thousands have been injured since the militia entered the city on January 26. Fighting anger most of last week.

Mamy Esther, 40, said: "I arrived here in pain, and he was injured in a bombing last week and was being treated at Kisshero Hospital.

Doctors at the facility walked around to check on patients, many bandages and plaster castings, lying on the beds of about 20 tents outside the hospital building.

Esther said she lost her six-year-old son in the explosion, hurting her and initially preventing her from walking. "I recovered little by little," she said.

At Chadrack Kabumba Hospital, 20, at Chadrack Kabumba Hospital, 20, he was shot four times the day after M23 entered Goma, and injured his knee and shoulders after four shots. “Through divine grace, I hope I can recover,” he said while sitting on the bed. Other patients nearby screamed and wriggled in pain.

Esther and Kabumba are among hundreds of Goma residents who desperately need blood.

The battle caused the influx of hospitals and deepened the crisis in Goma, a city of 2 million people and a humanitarian hub for displaced people.

At the beginning of Goma's offense, Kyeshero was supported by doctors without borders, receiving primarily patients with shrapnel wounds, the charity said. Now, it mainly treats bullet injuries.

For the first time of the fight, the hospital received nearly 140 injured people in its classification department, many of whom were taken to the hospital.

The conflict also destroyed transport routes and cut off the flow of aid, food and medical supplies. This also makes it impossible for overwhelmed hospitals to move patients to Bukavu, the capital city near the southern Kivo province.

To cope with the blood demand, Goma residents lined up in different parts of the city to donate. These include Prince Muhindo at Heal Africa Hospital in downtown on Wednesday.

“I realized that, 25-year-old motorcycle rider Muhindo, said motorcycle driver Muhindo, 25, said many people suffered a great deal of pain after the recent fight. “To end the fight In this case, I am determined to save my free will. ”

Muhindo said some of his family died of bullet injuries when M23 took over the city.

In the Katindo community, people sit on chairs in blood donation centers. She said Masika Mireille, 38, donated regularly, but this time she did so for a deeper and symbolic purpose.

“To prove the resilience of our city, I’m going to donate blood to save thousands of people who need it,” she said. “It’s my responsibility as a patriot.”

The innocent Gashamba, who is responsible for blood collection at the Goma Provincial Blood Transfusion Center, said it has held four donation classes a day, with a goal of 200 bags a day since Saturday.

“The crying of blood is needed,” he said, urging the city’s residents to “massively engage.”

"Blood cannot be replaced," he said.

M23 is a group led by Tutsi, with Durand, the United States, the United States and other countries expressing support, claiming that its purpose is to protect the interests of Congolese Tutsi and other ethnic minorities.

It is one of more than 100 armed groups to obtain territorial proceeds in the mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to finance its operations.

Rwanda denies support for M23, but UN experts say instead, Rwanda uses militias to extract and export valuable minerals.

M23 announced a unilateral ceasefire starting Tuesday “for humanitarian reasons” as humanitarian organizations and the international community stepped up calls for a safe corridor to bring important items into Goma.

But its fighters broke the ceasefire on Wednesday, launching another offensive in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and seizing a mining town in the southern Kivo province.

Two regional groups - Southern African Development Community and East African Community - will hold a joint summit in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on Friday and Saturday to discuss the conflict.