Residents of New Orleans have been urged to leave the city, but its evacuation routes were so congested, the authorities acknowledge that hundreds of thousands of residents would not get out in time. Leslie Phillips January 31, 2006 stated from the government’s point of view, “in the days leading up to Katrina’s landfall, 85 percent of the city evacuated successfully the 85 percent that were ambulatory and had, found, or could afford transportation, and had a place to stay. That is the one bright spot in this tale. However, many of the city’s most vulnerable populations – the poor, the sick, and the aged – were left behind. The city opened the Superdome as a refuge of last resort, but the Dome was ill equipped to accommodate the tens of thousands who would flock there in desperation to escape the rising floodwaters.
The coordination of patients is also poor which can result in devastating delays in diagnosis and treatment of patients. The community also has very poorly organized programs for cancer prevention and community education. Education is a key factor in the health of the community and getting early diagnosis of treatable cancers. Orthopedics As seen in the trend with oncology the orthopedic needs of the community are expected to grow by 46% in the next five years, with inpatient spine and joint procedures increasing by 30% and outpatient spine and joint procedures increasing by 350%. All of these numbers show a huge increase in demand.
When a local government feels it will be unable to effectively respond or it will be overwhelmed the federal government will step in with assistance, “jurisdictional level – typically the local government, with state government becoming involved at the local government’s request when the resources of local government are (or are expected to be) overwhelmed” (SECURITY, 2006). What emergency plans were in place prior to the arrival of Hurricane Katrina? Prior to landfall the preparation for Katrina was extensive and much more impressive than most think. “The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) positioned an unprecedented number of resources in affected areas prior to Katrina’s landfall. Indeed, FEMA’s efforts far exceeded any previous operation in the agency’s history” (Committee, 2006).
The communication and rhetorical decisions between Five days at Memorial and “Globalism’s Discontents” When challenges are coming and deadly choices need to be made, people always prove who they really are, which can be an ordeal of the basic humanity. As one of the biggest hurricane in the last 100 years, Hurricane Katrina seriously impacted the coast of United States in August 2005; “Katrina caused widespread devastation along the central Gulf Coast states of the US. Cities such as New Orleans, LA, Mobile, AL, and Gulfport, MS bore the brunt of Katrina's force and will need weeks and months of recovery efforts to restore normality” (Waple, ncdc.noaa.gov). During the disaster of Hurricane Katrina, doctors at Memorial Medical Center used the “triage system” to put patients into different levels for evacuation and some of them were euthanized by medical due to the lack of power, medical conditions, and the limitation of rescue. After two-year researching, Sheri Fink published the article “The deadly choices at Memorial” in the New York Times Magazine in 2009.
The Emergency Services Internship with the American Red Cross of Central Texas Joanna K. Suckling Anthropology 5395 Texas State University-San Marcos May 5th, 2011 INTRODUCTION In the spring semester of 2011, I fulfilled an emergency services internship with the American Red Cross of Central Texas chapter in Austin, Texas through the anthropology department of Texas State University-San Marcos. The emergency services intern works with American Red Cross staff and volunteers to prepare for and provide emergency relief to clients in the greater Central Texas area. This internship provided me with opportunities to experience how the American Red Cross operates and helps disaster victims. At my internship, I gained valuable skills in
The Dominican Red Cross coordinated early medical assistance in conjunction with the International Red Cross. The Dominican government sent eight mobile medical units along with 36 doctors including orthopaedic specialists, traumatologist, anaesthetists, and surgeons. A service was provided that dispersed 39 trucks equip with canned food, along with ten mobile kitchens and 110 cooks. These funds made it possible to produce 100,000 meals per day. Many other resources were distributed to assist in rescue and relief efforts.
The well known Red Cross was packed in their emergency shelters with 14 thousand people, so other groups and organizations had to help as well. Due to the disaster, FEMA was given the responsibility of mainly helping through the attack of hurricane Katrina, next to many other organizations hoping to help. FEMA was given large amounts of support from The Red Cross. And in a small given amount of time FEMA, due to their large amount of help, were given a larger responsibility for themselves in which taking care of the situation to a higher extent. The group FEMA, takes sides with some other federal organizations, but there was some amount of debate between them and the Red Cross.
FEMA: Learning the Hard Way Student Name ESOL 400 Mary Warden Last Name 1 FEMA: Learning The Hard Way In August 29, 2005, one of the most devastating natural disasters struck the United States. Hurricane Katrina made an enormous damage to the people living in the Gulf Coast. The hurricane left an unimaginable suffering to people physically, psychologically, and financially. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), whose role was to prepare and organize actions necessary to warn and help people in national emergency situations, seemed to be disorganized delaying the help people needed in this particular situation. Hence, FEMA’s lack of preparation and organization led to a greater damage and suffering to people.
Another positive attribute of the human race is charity. For example, when hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on many communities, Katrina caused devastating effects on New Orleans, and Louisiana, when almost the entire levee system that was supposed to protect the community from flooding, failed. Not only were aid and charity efforts received by the surrounding community’s, armed forces, government and anybody and everybody with the means, time and resources. Charity was received on international levels as well. Efforts ranged from initial response, evacuation efforts, protecting those caught in the devastation, search and rescue, relocating victims, housing, basic essentials, the clean up process and eventually the long road to rebuilding the community.
Poverty effects our health in many ways including mental health and diseases, access to vaccinations, malnutrition, and attaining adequate healthcare. According to Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, one in seven people go hungry in the world everyday. That is 925 million people. Nearly 50,000 people, including 28,000 children, die everyday due to poverty-related problems and preventable disease in impoverished third-world countries. That doesn't include the other millions of people who are infected with AIDS and other incurable diseases.