From "At Storm Victim's Funeral, a Celebration of a Life and a City":
Only 40 percent of the 883 bodies at the central morgue in St. Gabriel, La., have been released to families, and many victims - out of an estimated total of 1,050 in Louisiana and 230 in Mississippi - remain nameless or unclaimed.
Now, […]
Drudge says the L.A. Times will report on "Katrina Cough", which has afflited a "large number" of people and is due to all the mold and dust in the air:
Health officials are trying to determine how widespread the problem is, but suggest that it is popping up among people who have returned to storm-ravaged areas, […]
From this:
The LSU official in charge of the state's charity hospital system says it would cost $258 million to repair Charity Hospital and $395 million to replace it.
Don Smithburg, chief executive officer of the Louisiana State University Health Care Systems Division, told the LSU Board of Supervisors on Friday that federal guidelines call for replacing […]
From this:
Two months after Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana's public hospital system is on the verge of financial collapse unless federal aid is forthcoming quickly, the head of the system said Thursday.
"We're out of money, roughly after Thanksgiving," said Donald Smithburg, chief executive of the LSU Health Care Services Division told reporters. "We are running out of […]
Several doctors have written personal accounts of the storm in the New England Journal of Medicine. The section starts here, and a summary is here.
If there's something in there related to any topics covered here, please leave a comment.
In "Staff at New Orleans hospital debated euthanizing patients", CNN says an investigation has been launched.
The month-old post "Storm victims euthanized" has an orderly saying that this definitely happened, and that report includes a couple names. However, neither name makes it to the CNN report for some reason.
From the earlier report:
One New Orleans doctor told […]
U.S. House backs Katrina aid, cuts impotence drugs
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved $500 million in aid to Hurricane Katrina victims, financed by stopping federal payments for impotence drugs.
The House voted to free up the $500 million to help Katrina-affected Gulf states pay unemployment benefits to storm victims.
Senators vent frustration over Katrina aid […]
Unless someone reports something, they've stopped counting in Louisiana:
State and federal agencies have finished their sweeps through the city, but Kenyon International Emergency Services, the private company hired by the state to remove the bodies, is on call if any other body is found, said Bob Johannessen, a spokesman with the state Department of Health […]
According to Shots at helicopters shrouded in a 'fog', the official word from the Air Force, Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security and Louisiana Air National Guard is that they haven't been able to confirm any incidents of shots being fired at helicopters. The same goes for "members of several rescue crews who were told […]
This is an AP report from Thursday, Sep. 1. "Two New Orleans hospitals plead for help":
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 […]
