NEWS CATEGORIES:



NEWS ARCHIVE >>
SOFTPEDIA REVIEWS >>
Home / News / Science / Nature

Nature


Katrina Counts Its New Orleans Dead: 10,000

According to Mayor Ray Nagin

By Alina Plesu, Technology and Science Editor

6th of September 2005, 09:27 GMT

Adjust text size:



A week after the storm, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin warned on NBC's "Today" that "it wouldn't be unreasonable to have 10,000" dead.

Despite the depressing estimate, he was more positive than in previous days, when he broke down crying during a interview; back then, he went almost hysteric on the inefficiency of the authorities which failed in several cases to avoid after-disaster unnecessary decease.

"We're making great progress now, the momentum has picked up. I'm starting to see some critical tasks being completed," he told NBC.

Meanwhile, physicians
who volunteered to care for the sick say the situation is more under control. Doctors, surgeons and paramedics say they have been offered all governmental support in order for the health care problems to be solved in the devastated region.

But, surprisingly, it seems that they are better managing the situation on the location of the disaster, as many doctors, hospitals and ordinary people struggle to offer their support and can't cross over the bureaucracy line.
According to Dr. Jeffrey Guy, a trauma surgeon at Vanderbilt University, hospitals are contacting him, saying: "We need to take on patients," but they can't get through the bureaucracy.
"The crime of this story is, you've got millions of dollars in assets, and it's not deployed," Dr. Guy said. "We mount a better response in a Third World country."

Furthermore, news about home is coming from a rather unofficial source for the worried hurricane survivors.
A program available at the Google website, called Google Earth, at www.earth.google.com allows users to zoom in on any address for an aerial view drawn from the database of satellite photos.
At Google Maps, post hurricane images are also available about flooded areas in New Orleans.

So, the situation seems to get critical from another point of view, especially that there was also some other type of incidents reported. The New Orleans police announced yesterday they had had to shoot five men Sunday who had been firing at a team of Army Corps engineers trying to repair a bridge damaged by Katrina. Official speculation says that many of these sniper attacks have come from drug-takers who, unable to find drugs, have gone out of control and reacted violently.
As of yesterday, reports say city police are enforcing a "shoot-to-kill" policy to restore order in the city.


Rating: vote(s) so far    

Read by 4,706 user(s) | Add comment | Link to this article
Subscribe to news | Print article | Send to friend

© Copyright 2001-2008 Softpedia
Contact:

 

 

SEARCH THE NEWS ARCHIVE :




Today's News
| Yesterday's News | News Archive


MORE RELATED ARTICLES:


Katrina Inspires Scammers

Katrina Generates Mass Health Concerns

Alabama Dries Out

GOOGLE: Post-Katrina images of New Orleans on Google Maps

1 Week After Katrina, The American Red Cross Is Setting A Record Relief Pace

NASA Makes Official Statement On Katrina

User opinions:

No user comments yet.
Be the first to express your opinion using the form below!

Share your opinion:

Your Name:
Your Email Address:
(will not be used for commercial purposes)
Solve this to prove you're not a bot: =
Your review/opinion:

 






SUBMIT PROGRAM   |   ADVERTISE   |   GET HELP   |   SEND US FEEDBACK   |   RSS FEEDS   |   ENTER NEWS SITE   |   ENGLISH BOARD   |   ROMANIAN FORUM