Disaster Officials Collecting the Dead

[norml]

Disaster Officials Collecting the Dead
Toll expected in thousands, as some medical relief hits a roadblock

By Steven Reinberg and Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporters





MONDAY, Sept. 5 (HealthDayNews) -- The grim task of dealing with the dead from Hurricane Katrina came into sharp focus Monday as authorities began collecting and counting the bodies strewn throughout still-flooded New Orleans.

And health relief efforts appeared to hit some red tape, as hundreds of volunteer doctors were reportedly stalled in their attempts to reach the survivors and others said their offers of help were basically ignored.

In the first official death count in the New Orleans area, Louisiana emergency medical director Louis Cataldie said authorities had verified 59 deaths -- 10 of them at the Superdome, the Associated Press reported. The Superdome had housed thousands of refugees in what soon turned into nightmarish conditions last week.

The U.S. Public Health Service said a prison morgue near New Orleans was expecting 1,000 to 2,000 bodies. And more than 125 were known dead in Mississippi.

The preliminary counts seemed to confirm what the nation's top health official had admitted Sunday: The dead will number in the thousands.


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[Wickerman]

1. health relief efforts appeared to hit some red tape

:mad:

[ret5hd]

2. said a prison morgue near New Orleans was expecting 1,000 to 2,000 bodies.

i'd guess more along the lines of 20,000

[CountAllVotes]

3. or a whole lot more than that

like try 20,000,000 down the road after the epidemics have spread from the gulf stream waters!

THIS IS A TOXIC GOD DAMN MESS!

IT IS MORE than a HELL - it is CHAOS and massive death!

[leftchick]

4. nobody wants to say it yet, they did throughout the Tsunami rescue

The true number will be in the TENS of Thousands. :cry:

[saigon68]

5. There are going to be a lot

The lack of news of any kind, points to that conclusion.