New Orleans’ Hospitals Launched Evacuation, Emergency Measures To Protect High-Risk Patients From Hurricane Gustav
Hospitals in the New Orleans area over the weekend took steps to evacuate patients with high-risk conditions as Hurricane Gustav approached the city, “underscoring the effort by local health officials to avoid the missteps that occurred during Hurricane Katrina three years ago, when some critically sick people were left virtually abandoned in flooded, powerless medical facilities and nursing homes,” the
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Filed under: Aid / Disasters on September 8th, 2008