According to reports on CNN News this morning, the most critical of patients in New Orleans area hospitals remain there with fingers crossed that the generators hold out long enough for Hurricane Gustav to pass.
For the most critical of patients, they probably don’t have many options to be moved, but when more than 100 patients remain in one hospital alone–one has to wonder whether some of the less criticals could have been moved out of harm’s way.
We all wait with bated breath to see what happens to New Orleans and we can only hope that those sickest of the sick will have a chance to get well, that the lights stay on, and that Gustav gets out of New Orleans–FAST.
Summer Johnson, PhD