10.05.2005

New Orleans Hospitals Ruined By Katrina


Unfortunately, two hospitals in New Orleans are damaged beyond repair from Hurricane Katrina. This type of infrastructure takes several years to rebuild.
New Orleans' two public hospitals should be torn down because the damage inflicted by Hurricane Katrina has left them "dangerous, dangerous places," the head of Louisiana's charity hospital system said Wednesday.

Charity and University hospitals "were issued their death warrant by Katrina and the cataclysmic floods it spawned," Donald R. Smithburg told the Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors.

"Even before the storms, these old facilities were on the ropes," he said, noting that Charity was built in the 1930s and University in the 1960s.

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