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| Louisiana refused mobile emergency hospital |
| 2005-09-07 |
| EFL. Emphasis added. In the first 16 hours, doctors treated about 100 people: nasty head wounds, car crash victims, cuts from storm debris, dehydration. With such demand, it is hard to imagine that the doctors weren't allowed to set up shop in Louisiana, their original destination. They were stymied by red tape there. "Mississippi stepped up and said if they don't want you, we'll take you," Dr. Thomas Blackwell, medical director of the hospital and an emergency doctor at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C., said Monday. He said the delay in getting deployed was a dispute with Louisiana over what they'd be allowed to do. Now the futuristic $1.5 million emergency response hospital is getting its first real tryout since the Department of Homeland Security established it. The 113-bed hospital travels in a convoy that includes two 53-foot trailers. Equipment includes ultrasound, digital radiology, satellite Internet, and a full pharmacy, enabling doctors to do most types of surgery. |
| Posted by:Jackal |
| #4 I feel for the poor |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-09-07 17:55 |
| #3 Bunko :> |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-09-07 16:37 |
| #2 Bottom line: Gov Bunko was too buys playing Big Government power politics (i.e. who gets to control what) to coniseder the lives of her citizens. MOre and more its looking like Mayor Nagin may have fumbled somewhat, but that the government of Louisiana (including the governor) will be the biggest source (other than Katrina) of human misery and suffering in that state. |
| Posted by: Oldspook 2005-09-07 13:01 |
| #1 Louisianna probably figured if BJ and Trapper weren't on the staff what the hell. Just one more instance of LA's general incompotence |
| Posted by: Cheaderhead 2005-09-07 10:56 |