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State of Art Mobile Hospital from UNC Turned Away
by Cal45
Mon Sep 5th, 2005 at 14:11:22 PDT

"We have tried so hard to do the right thing. It took
us 30 hours to get here," said one of the frustrated
surgeons, Dr. Preston "Chip" Rich of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. That government
officials can't straighten out the mess and get them
assigned to a relief effort now that they're just a few
miles away "is just mind-boggling," he said in a phone
interview.

Next door in Mississippi, the North Carolina mobile
hospital waiting to help also offered impressive
state-of-the-art medical care.

It was developed with millions of tax dollars through
the Office of Homeland Security after 9-11. With
capacity for 113 beds, it is designed to handle
disasters and mass casualties.

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Equipment includes ultrasound, digital radiology,
satellite Internet, and a full pharmacy, enabling
doctors to do most types of surgery in the field,
including open-chest and abdominal operations

It travels in a convoy that includes two 53-foot
trailers, which on Sunday afternoon was parked on a
gravel lot 70 miles north of New Orleans because
Louisiana officials for several days would not let them
deploy to the flooded city, Rich said.

An e-mail reply told him to watch CNN that night where
HHS Secretary Leavitt was to announce a Web address for
doctors to enter their names in a database. "How crazy
is that?" he complained in an e-mail to his daughter.
Plans to use the facility and its 100 health
professionals were hatched days before Hurricane
Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, doctors in the
caravan said.

On the Net:

Mobile hospital:
http://www.carolinasmed-1.org/index.cfm 
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