The witness, identified as P-021, who works as a doctor at the Vukovar Hospital, said that from 25 August until the fall of the town on 18 November, the hospital had been shelled although it was visibly marked with a red cross.
The witness also said that the hospital had never been used for military purposes.
She said that the attacks grew stronger by the day and that the situation in the hospital deteriorated. She described how hundreds of civilians came to the hospital on November 17-18 seeking shelter and hoping to be evacuated under the supervision of international observers.
Instead of that, the JNA took over control of the hospital, and on November 20 started separating and taking men away, the witness said.
She described how a soldier or a doctor wearing a military uniform came to the hospital on the morning of November 20 and started examining wounded people and patients, singling out those whom he believed to be fake patients.
She said that two of her patients were examined by that man, who then sent them to another section of the hospital. The two patients were later exhumed from the mass grave at the Ovcara farm.
One of the previous witnesses for the prosecution, the chief nurse at the Vukovar Hospital in 1991, Binazija Kolesar, also spoke about the selecting of wounded people in the hospital, stating that the selection was carried out by Dr. Marko Ivezic of the Belgrade-based Army Medical Centre (VMA).
Witness P-021 said that the list of patients she was required to make before the evacuation contained the names of 25 wounded people, whom she last saw on the morning of 20 November as they were being taken away by JNA soldiers, after a meeting of the hospital staff with Major Veselin Sljivancanin.
The three former JNA officers - retired general Mile Mrksic, who in 1991 commanded a task force formed to attack Vukovar, and his subordinates Veselin Sljivancanin and Miroslav Radic, are being tried for crimes against humanity and violations of the laws and customs of war and responsibility for the murder of at least 264 wounded people and civilians taken from the Vukovar Hospital on 20 November 1991 and killed at Ovcara.