"At least 40 bodies were found Sunday at the 317-bed Memorial Medical Center,
but the exact number was unclear. Bob Johannesen, a spokesman for the state
Department of Health and Hospitals, said 45 patients had been found; hospital
assistant administrator David Goodson said there were 44, plus three on the
grounds.
"Goodson said patients died while waiting to be evacuated over the four days after the hurricane hit, as temperatures inside the hospital reached 106 degrees. "I would suggest that that had a lot to do with" the deaths, he said of the heat. "Family members and nurses were "literally standing over the patients, fanning them," he said. "Bush, in his third visit to New Orleans since the storm, made his first foray
to the streets Monday, touring the city for 45 minutes. He disputed suggestions
that the government responded sluggishly because the victims were mostly poor
and black." --- AP Actions speak louder than words, floppy-ears...
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"So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot."
-- Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson ParishFire |
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Motherfucker |
At that place |
"One National Guard soldier
who asked not to be named for fear of punishment from his commanding
officer said of the lack of medical attention at the center,
'They (the
Bush administration) care more about Iraq and Afghanistan than here.'"