Thursday, September 01, 2005
Giving the greatest benefit of the doubt ...
OK, say for the sake of argument it's just really really hard to get basic supplies to a flooded city, that even at a swift rate it takes more than 5 days to get releif really rolling, this I don't think can be explained away,
Doctors at two desperately crippled hospitals in New Orleans called The Associated Press Thursday morning pleading for rescue, saying they were nearly out of food and power and had been forced to move patients to higher floors to escape looters.
"We have been trying to call the mayor's office, we have been trying to call the governor's office ... we have tried to use any inside pressure we can. We are turning to you. Please help us," said Dr. Norman McSwain, chief of trauma surgery at Charity Hospital, the largest of two public hospitals.
... "We need coordinated help from the government," McSwain said.
He described horrific conditions.
"There is no food in Charity Hospital. They're eating fruit bowl punch and that's all they've got to eat. There's minimal water," McSwain said.
The hospitals haven't moved from where they were before the Hurricane five days ago. There is no reason I can think of why supplies haven't been choppered onto the roof, and a few armed guards left to watch over things.
// posted by Erik @ 9/01/2005 02:09:00 PM
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