Mobile Hospital a Lifesaver After Katrina

[struggle4progress]

WAVELAND, Miss. — The Mississippi town of Waveland is one of the most devastated places in the Gulf Coast. Just about everything is gone.

With nothing left and nowhere to go, Waveland’s survivors picked through piles of donated clothing. No one was surprised to see kids roaming around in their pajamas.

But across the street, amid the mess where Hurricane Katrina's massive storm surge left people dead atop a K-Mart, lay a lifesaver: a mobile medical center from North Carolina.

MED One has been treating people since Sept. 4, shortly after the raging storm hit, and has helped about 6,500 patients. This is its first deployment and it's proven to be a vital need for a community where the local hospitals were washed out and shut down. <snip>

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,172385,00.html


Carolinas MED-1 Mobile Hospital Treats Hurricane Victims

... Carolinas MED-1 was originally set to deploy to New Orleans, but governmental red tape over scope of practice issues stopped the unit from arriving there ...
http://www.merginet.com/index.cfm?pg=industry&fn=mobilehospital

[uppityperson]

1. Very good, mobile clinics are great

This one looks like a really good, well supplied and clean clinic. I saw volunteer tent clinics in Slidell (surgery by flashlite), Pearlington, mobile clinics roaming here and there via vfp/camp covington/etc, mosque clinic in Algiers (commongroundrelief.org) serving anyone in need. I didn't see this one, it looks really well supplied and I hope they can continue to work there. Thank you to everyone who helped, and are still helping do this sort of work.

[struggle4progress]

2. It took them forever to deploy because FEMA kept stalling them. eom

[uppityperson]

3. FEMA, pshaw.

Ego trips. Power struggles. Lack of coordination and planning amongst those who had or wanted power. I am sure there are individual FEMAites that are fine caring concerned people, but as a whole, oxymoron. Federal Emergency Management Agency. Right. I guess my problem is that I keep thinking they want to manage it positively.

Anyway, thanks for bringing this team to my attention.