Amman, Jordan ? Baghdad’s hard-pressed surgeons, flooded with war-wounded, are amputating the limbs of children and adults with too few anesthetics to block the pain and too few antibiotics to protect the patients, a Greek doctor newly arrived from Iraq reported Saturday.

“They don’t have drugs,” Dr. Dimitrius Mognie said. “I saw it myself. I opened the cabinets.”

Mognie’s account, after a full day touring hospitals during the U.S. bombardment, was a firsthand substantiation of a report by World Health Organization officials here, who said Friday the Iraqi capital was running low on anesthetics, analgesics and surgical items.

As U.S. forces probed Baghdad on the ground Saturday and pounded the city intensively from the air, the International Committee of the Red Cross said its workers reported several hundred wounded Iraqis and dozens of dead had been brought to four city hospitals on Friday and Saturday.

Mognie, 39, a general practitioner from Athens, is familiar with Baghdad’s medical system, having traveled 16 times to Iraq since 1993 to research its health problems and offer support as a member of the international aid group Doctors of the World.

Mognie and a colleague managed to get one of the few aid shipments in to Baghdad over the risky road from Jordan — 32 tons of blankets, food and medicine. They arrived in the two-truck convoy Tuesday, and he spent his first night in a 30th-floor hotel room with a sweeping view of a city under air bombardment. “I couldn’t sleep at all,” Mognie said.