“Chocolate City” and State Refused Help Pre-Katrina

by Liberally Conservative @ 7:32 pm. Filed under Uncategorized

A ranking Louisiana health official turned down federal offers to help move or evacuate patients as Hurricane Katrina bore down on New Orleans, a newly released document shows.

The state’s top medical officer said Louisiana coordinated with the federal Health and Human Services Department in evacuating hospitals and nursing homes after Katrina hit.

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Two days before the Aug. 29 storm, HHS was told by the state’s health emergency preparedness director that the help was not needed, according to an e-mail released Monday by a Senate panel investigating the government’s response to Katrina.

The state official, identified in the Aug. 27 e-mail as Dr. Roseanne Pratts, “responded no, that they do not require anything at this time and they would be in touch if and when they needed assistance,” wrote HHS senior policy analyst Erin Fowler.

At least 40 bodies, many of them elderly patients, were found inside a flooded New Orleans hospital after Katrina hit. Thirty-four patients at a nursing home near New Orleans died Aug. 29 in the wake of massive flooding brought by the storm’s surge. The nursing home’s owners have since been charged with negligent homicide for failing to evacuate the patients.

The committee also released a Senate interview of Louisiana Transportation Secretary Johnny Bradberry, during which he told investigators “we have done nothing to fulfill this responsibility” of ensuring evacuation plans are in place for at-risk populations.

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“We put no plans in place to do any of this,” Bradberry said in the Dec. 21 interview, 12 pages of which were released by the Senate committee.

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The Attic has not seen responses from racist New Orleans Mayor “Willy Wonka” Nagin, pathetic Governor Blanco or the ever whining Senator Landrieu. All other Louisiana politicians were off filtering donations and government aid to personal offshore bank accounts and were not available for comment.

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Source: Associated Press

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January 31, 2006

“Chocolate City” and State Refused Help Pre-Katrina

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