Reply #28: And Charity/University staff had to call the media for help [View All]

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,168325,00.html


The hospitals were desperate for help. On Thursday, doctors from Charity and University, the city's other public hospital, had called the Associated Press 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.

Charity Hospital is across the street from Tulane University Medical Center, a private facility that had almost completed evacuating more than 1,000 patients and family members Thursday.

On Thursday, Dr. Lee Hamm, chairman of medicine at Tulane University, had taken a canoe from Tulane to check on conditions at the two public hospitals and had described a harrowing situation.

Relatives of Dr. Hamm reported that they received a text message from him around midday Friday, confirming that evacuations were taking place at Charity and nearby University Hospital, where more than 1,000 patients, family members, staff and people from the community had huddled.