i would imagine all types of specialists have to be there, to include psychiatric specialists. reporter: there there be a range of services because the boys will have a range of needs. they ll be checking for signs of hypothermia, checking their breathing. they ll be making sure their nutrition will be put back on track after having so little food for over a week. they re also going to be looking at things like cave disease which is a bacterial infection which can be fatal if it goes untreated. so they re really going to be taking a very long, hard look at all of the things that could be affecting these kids, especially their emotions. you have to think that these kids were sitting there in the dark for a full week before those two british divers popped in and asked how many of them were there. and then there were the days that followed when divers and
they ve already been checked over by a full medical team at the cave entrance, a doctor, two nurses, paramedics. they were looking first for the health of their breathing, then looking for signs of hypothermia. this flood water has been freezing. most of them bare food for the better part of 16 days. they re also looking for signs of pneumonia perhaps, cave disease, before bringing them here to hospital. they re also going to be taking very good care of their psychological health. they ve been sitting in the dark for 16 days. they ve been afraid. they ve been wanting to be reunited with their parents. it appears with this operation under way these boys are finally coming home. all right, natalie. i hope you heard janis mackey frayer through the phone line. one thing she brought up was the darkness. i m curious about after 16 days of all darkness, except for head
medical staff, of course, the boys breathing, given the deterioration of oxygen levels and also concerns of hypothermia. this is an environment filled with freezing floodwater and the boys have been in bare feet. they re also checking for signs of bacterial he infection called cave disease and then the issue of their emotional health. how has this impacted them psychologically? so all of the medical staff and specialists coming together to focus exclusively on these boys. four of them are out now. safety tonight. the rest, they ll start the mission again tomorrow. rescue officials needed about ten to 20 hours to prepare for this next phase of the mission. the four boys who came out today were deemed by a doctor to be the healthiest. that s why they went first. so it may be that in the phases to follow it could take a little bit longer if the boys aren t quite as strong.
very cold floodwater, and many of the boys had been barefoot for most of the 16 days. they re also being checked for something called cave disease, which is a bacterial infection that can be fatal if it goes untreated. all of these initial checks were being done. the boys stabilized, put into ambulance and brought to the hospital. the heambulance was at the end the street and one boy was ferried to the hospital. one was brought by ambulance by road the entire time. that took a little longer but pulling right up to the front of the hospital. they will be getting very critical care in the days to come, and not only medically but also emotionally. i mean, these boys have been sitting in the dark for 16 days, and they ve been wondering when somebody is going to come and get them. when somebody did come, they had to spend days figuring out how
to remove the remaining players and coach. janice, as i understand it, you re outside that hospital. a whole floor has been reserved for the survivors who have been removed from that cave. what are doctors telling you? what s the hospital saying about the condition they re in, how they have weathered the rescue effort so far? reporter: well, they re being very secretive about the condition of the boys. they want to ensure that they get the privacy that they would need, having emerged after 15 days of darkness, being reunited with their families after these incredibly difficult circumstances. they were met by fully-staffed medical teams that were waiting at the cave entrance. each boy assigned their own team, doctor, nurses, paramedics. they were checked first for their breathing, because the oxygen levels in the cave had been such a concern these past few days. also checked for signs of hypo they we hypothermia and cave disease, a