11 evacuees reported dead in northwestern Louisiana
9/13/2005, 7:53 a.m. CT
The Associated Press
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Eleven evacuees from Hurricane Katrina have died over the past two weeks after being transported out of southeastern Louisiana, a coroner says.
Most of the dead were elderly patients or people who did not receive needed medical attention before and during the evacuation, said Caddo Parish coroner George McCormick. One victim was a stillborn baby whose mother had complications during the evacuation, McCormick said.
Some of the victims died on buses and evacuation aircraft going to Shreveport, McCormick said. Others died in nursing homes around Shreveport, he said.
McCormick said the process of identifying the dead and notifying patients is chaotic.
"We can't even find out who to report the deaths to," McCormick said.
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