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This 3 page paper examines the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the health care system; it also discusses the government response to the tragedy and how Louisiana is coping today. It also states what might have been done differently. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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political protest. This paper examines some of the issues surrounding the response to the hurricane including damage to the health care system, the government response, and what might have been
done differently. The Health Care System When Katrina slammed through New Orleans, she not only caused huge losses in physical damage, she exposed many problems that had previously been hidden,
including the poor health care response, and the abysmal performance by FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency. When the storm was over, thousands of people were displaced, the city
was a toxic sewer, clinics were flooded, hospitals were closed, and health care was a shambles (Kalb, Murr and Raymond, 2005). The system collapsed: both Charity and University hospitals shut
down (they were still closed at the time the article was published, December 2005) (Kalb, Murr and Raymond, 2005). Private clinics were understaffed, and outpatient clinics saw as much as
a 50% increase in patients (Kalb, Murr and Raymond, 2005). Patients with chronic health problems that needed ongoing treatment (i.e., AIDS and cancer) may have fared worst. One physician reports
that his patients paper records were destroyed by the flood; he has sent his computer hard drives to a company specializing in data recovery from shipwrecks, but says "They may
well be lost" (Kalb, Murr and Raymond, 2005). AIDS patients couldnt always get their medication, some patients vanished completely (Kalb, Murr and Raymond, 2005). "Only half of the 1,600 patients
registered with the AIDS Drug Assistance Program have been located since the storm, says Beth Scalco, Louisianas AIDS program director. Are the rest getting their meds? Nobody knows" (Kalb, Murr
and Raymond, 2005). The result is sure to be people who get sicker faster and die sooner (Kalb, Murr and Raymond, 2005). The mental health crisis is deepening as well.
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