All patients and staff evacuated from Charity Hospital?

[VolcanoJen]

According to the CBS News Blog. Is this true, or is this what Baghdad-in-the-Bayou Brown is telling them?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/02/katrina/main814616.shtml

Sept. 3, 2005

2:06 a.m.
(AP) Two of New Orleans' most troubled hospitals were evacuated late Friday after desperate doctors spent days making tough choices about which patients got dwindling supplies of food, water and medicines.

Rescuers finally made it into Charity and University hospitals and evacuated all remaining patients and staff.

Also, this:

12:05 a.m.
(AP) Tulane University canceled its fall semester Friday because of Hurricane Katrina and encouraged its students to take classes through others schools while the New Orleans university tries to clean up from the flooding.

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1. All I know is..

Dr. Gupta was on Aaron Brown saying there were still 200 patients there at that time, 10:00-11:00 eastern. Also, that this was the main public hospital in the city, and the private hospital, Tulane, had non-essential personnel evacuated, in fact the whole hospital evacuated, while patients in need at Charity were ignored.

[VolcanoJen]

3. I saw that, too, which is why i'm not so sure about this story.

Was Dr. Gupta live when that story was on? Didn't he mention that it wasn't possible to land on the roof of Charity Hospital due to damage, and that they'd have to rig another way?

Three hours later, and they got everyone out?

I do hope this is true. I do. But remember Baghdad Brown's statement, I think he made it Thursday?

Brown: I've just learned today that we ... are in the process of completing the evacuations of the hospitals, that those are going very well.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/katrina.response/index.html

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6. The interview with Gupta was live

Brown was doing a check-in with all the correspondents.

I agree it's hard to believe and the other Mr. Brown is a lying bastard.

[Wizard777]

2. I hope so. My heart goes out to them. More Living Saints.

A whole blessed city of them. NOLA is fortunate to have these brave and dedicated souls. God Bless them one and God Bless them all.

[mshasta]

4. go here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1749040

[LSU_Subversive]

5. i'm an intern at a state hospital in the middle of louisiana and

we've been expecting about 100 additional psychiatric patients and 100 staff members from Charity for several days. well, tonight, the hospital's readying all the materials. it's about 2:30am (i can't sleep) and they're still working on cleaning and setting up extra rooms. from the look of things they'll be here very soon.

can't say that everybody is evacuated though.

[VolcanoJen]

7. That's encouraging!!

Please, please keep us updated, and bless you for your hard work.

[VolcanoJen]

8. AP: New Orleans Hospital Evacuations Finish

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050903/ap_on_re_us/katrina_hospitals_hk1

This story was filed at 12:29 am ET, shortly after Dr. Gupta gave his interview.

Interesting.

I do hope this is true.

Excerpt:

Two of New Orleans' most troubled hospitals were evacuated late Friday after desperate doctors spent days making tough choices about which patients got dwindling supplies of food, water and medicines.

Rescuers finally made it into Charity and University hospitals and evacuated all remaining patients and staff.

"The last information I have is that all of the buildings are empty," said Don Smithburg, head of the Louisiana State University hospital system.

About 2,200 people were evacuated, including 363 patients. Some were taken out on stretchers and others on piggyback.

Three terminally ill patients died during the evacuation. Smithburg did not know how many died waiting for help.

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9. I think it's true

Unfortunately, so is this:

"Three terminally ill patients died during the evacuation. Smithburg did not know how many died waiting for help."

We will never know, there are too many who are dying waiting for help.

[Ms. Clio]

10. Yes, seems to be true, heard Charity Hospital was clear on the scanner

several hours ago.

[Wizard777]

11. YES! I think those nurses need a 5 week vacation. All exspenses paid.

We'll just take it out of the Bush's 100% pay raise. Good enough for the guy that poses for the disaster is good enough for the Nurses that suffered through the REAL hard work of keeping people Alive durring the disaster.