Dozens found dead at New Orleans hospital (AP) Updated: 2005-09-13 08:45 "This may not be quite on the scale of building the pyramids, but it's
close," Fair said. He had no cost estimates.
FEMA's embattled director Mike Brown also announced Monday he would resign
"in the best interest of the agency and best interest of the president." Brown
has been vilified for the slow and unfocused federal response to a hurricane,
already considered the nation's costliest ever.
Insurance experts have doubled to at least $40 billion their estimate of
insured losses caused by Katrina. Risk Management Solutions Inc. of Newark,
Calif., put the total economic damage at more than $125 billion.
US President George W. Bush, Mayor Ray Nagin,
Lousiana Governor Blanco and Vice Admiral Thad Allen tour through an area
of New Orleans, Louisiana, standing in the back of a military truck, where
the flood waters recently receeded.
[AFP] | Lawmakers in Washington proposed some tax
changes Monday to help the victims get back on their feet, such as letting them
tap retirement accounts without penalty and encouraging donations of cash, food
and school books.
Former New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial called for a compensation fund for the
hurricane victims similar to the fund created for victims of the terrorist
attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The death toll has also been rising as more bodies are recovered across the
region.
At least 40 bodies were found Sunday at the 317-bed Memorial Medical Center,
but the exact number was unclear. Bob Johannesen, a spokesman for the state
Department of Health and Hospitals, said 45 patients had been found; hospital
assistant administrator David Goodson said there were 44, plus three on the
grounds.
Also unclear was exactly how the patients died.
Steven Campanini, a spokesman for the hospital's owner, Tenet Healthcare
Corp., said some of the patients were dead before the storm arrived, and none of
the deaths resulted from lack of food, water or electricity to power medical
equipment. He said many were seriously ill.
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