SAN ANTONIO There are approximately 35 military medical nurses currently serving at five San Antonio hospitals. Mieke Carifee is a registered nurse and has been helping at Baptist Medical Center in downtown for about two weeks. So here at the hospitals, its -- were very busy -- a lot of sick patients, having to do a lot of overflow into other units to help make room for patients because were having a higher uptake in the number of really sick patients, Carifee said. Baptist Medical Center in downtown has five military nurses helping in the intensive care unit. Besides the military nurses who have come to help, Baptist Health System expects 75 additional nurses to arrive this week.