Nearly a year after they arrived in New Orleans to aid in health care availability following Katrina, several double-wide FEMA trailers designed to be used for medical services sit untouched while hospitals continue to overflow with patients, according to several doctors familiar with the situation.
This incompetence may be local:
LSU and Tulane doctors are ready to staff the facilities that will include primary doctors and some specialists, but they say they've had problems with zoning issues, that may be finally be getting resolved.
But I'm not ready to give the feds a pass on this. You'd think under FEMA's emergency authority the feds could override local rules. I do know from dear friends of mine that visit New Orleans that it is a forgotten city. Here's one friend's website with lots of sad pictures: http://www.chrisushe...