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A hospital about an hour s drive from the cave. doctors and nurses there have been preparing for days in anticipation of treating the first boys. let s check in with cnn s international correspondent matt rivers right outside the hospital. what are you learning? how are the boys doing? reporter: yeah, no official word yet from hospital staff in terms of the conditions of these boys, but kind of like jonathan just said, you have to imagine that given what they ve gone through, at least physically speaking, they had to be in some sort of shape to be able to make that very arduous journey. nonetheless, of course as you would expect, those boys were transported immediately here to the hospital, unclear how long they ll have to stay here. it s unclear what kind of symptoms, if anything, they had while here. we saw four different balances arrive, one balance for each boy. we expect that process to continue as more people are extracted from that cave. like you said, this hospital was prepar ....
Outside the hospital where the four boys are now being treated. let s go first to jonathan miller. this was an extraordinary rescue. there s still a long way to go. so how do they pull this off? reporter: joe, they had about 90 rescue workers in total down in that incredibly labyrinth and cavern system. only 13 of them were involved with the actual rescue of pulling the boys out. they were the trained cave divers. each boy, each of the four boys who have come out had a diver, one ahead of them and one behind. the boy in the middle held on to a rope tethered to the front diver, who also held his compressed air tank. the diver on the back would also have been holding a guideline, the dive line, and they navigated through several passageways of submerged tunnel before scrambling out into the upper chambers of the cave. ....
All of this, joe, we have had a lot of time here. the boys and their coach have been underground for weeks now. so this hospital was prepared. we saw gurneys outside the hospital earlier today. and the staff here has told cnn, look, we re ready for anything. so hopefully these boys are in good hands. all right, matt rivers. thanks so much for that. keep us informed about the condition of those kids. as for the rest of the boys still in the cave, how do they feel anxiously awaiting news from the outside if they ll make it out? joining me now is psychiatrist carol lieberman, also a former scuba diver. doctor, just the anxiety of learning to swim for the first time, how do these boys deal with that? yes, it is very anxiety provoking because, you know, you were talking about resort lessons, scuba diving lessons. ....