People used to come here to receive assistance and healing. However, the Iskenderun Devlet Hastanesi hospital's intensive care unit was reduced to ruins when the earthquake struck more than a week ago.
Rescuers on the scene estimate that 300 people—staff, patients, and visitors—were inside. How many survived is unknown.
Not least because many people in this area have seen a building report from the health ministry's website, the level of rage is rising. "Earthquake resistance test came back negative," it says in red.
It came out in 2012. Locals at the site are talking and sharing information with one another about the remedial work that was done, if any was done at all.
When it fell, Alican Kenar's grandmother and her brother were both in the hospital. The body of his grandmother wasn't discovered until Tuesday night, more than a week after the earthquake.
Mr. Kenar told us, "This is all the fault of a person or people, and the government, of course. "Everyone can see that it's obvious. This is the fault; it's not fate. ".
As the diggers sort through the material, additional families are still seated at the site's base, covered in dust.
The families tell us that they paid for the equipment and fuel to find their missing out of their own pockets.
Some claim that they have never encountered state-funded search and rescue teams, only volunteer teams. In the initial days, Mr. Kenar claims to have seen some officials, but they were few in number and unequipped.
According to Mr. Kenar, "This building was abandoned for two to three days.". "This world is incredibly disorganized. If we had been ready, things might have been different. We ought to have gained knowledge. ".
The official Turkish search and rescue team, AFAD, arrived while we were there, but they were met with hostility.
One woman yelled, "We've been waiting here for nine days!". When the BBC team left the location several hours later, the AFAD representatives had already left and were still gone.
Recovery workers occasionally take a break from their work to retrieve a handbag and search through the wallet for any IDs.
Then a shout is heard. Another body has been discovered. His hospital wrist band serves as his identification. The rescuers see a family running forward with photos on their phones.
A nod. It's their dad. "Papa, papa," his daughters scream as his body is taken away in a black body bag.
