Posted on 02/02/2006 11:09:22 AM PST by ncountylee
WASHINGTON Senators needled Governor Kathleen Blanco today over state evacuation plans that left sick and elderly patients in nursing homes as Hurricane Katrina bore down on the Gulf Coast.
Senator Susan Collins, head of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said the majority of nursing homes did not evacuate, and people died because of it.
At issue was earlier testimony by Louisiana's transportation secretary who told Senate investigators that the state did nothing to fulfill its responsibility of ensuring evacuation plans are in place for at-risk populations.
At least 40 bodies, many of them elderly patients, were found inside a flooded New Orleans hospital after Katrina hit.
Additionally, 34 patients at a nursing home near New Orleans died August 29th 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.
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His main problem is he can't think on his feet, hell he can't think.
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