A vehicle dropping off a gunshot victim struck 3 nurses, seriously injuring one.

PHILADELPHIA — A vehicle fleeing a Philadelphia hospital after dropping off a shooting victim early Saturday struck three nurses who were trying to treat the patient, seriously injuring one, authorities said.

The silver Jeep Cherokee had just dropped the man off in the ambulance bay at Penn Presbyterian Hospital around 4:30 a.m. Saturday when it struck the three nurses as it fled, police said.

A 36-year-old nurse is in critical condition with facial injuries and internal bleeding. A 37-year-old nurse with head injuries and a 51-year-old nurse with head and back injuries are in stable condition, police said.

The 28-year-old shooting victim arrived with multiple gunshot wounds and may have suffered head injuries in the hit-and-run, police said.

Penn Medicine told WCAU-TV that the incident was “devastating” but that staff “continued to work to save the gunshot victim and care for all of our other patients even as their own colleagues suffered and were treated “.

Authorities said they were supporting the victims and their families and cooperating with police, who are investigating both the hit-and-run crash and the earlier shooting.

Philadelphia City Council member Jamie Gauthier said in a statement that staff at the region’s only Level 1 trauma center “come face to face with horrific pain and suffering every day to care for us during the most traumatic moments of our lives.

“It is inconceivable to me that someone would drive their car to our neighbors charged with healing,” he said.