Doctor: Quake victims dying without U.S. airlifts

[EFerrari]

Doctor: Quake victims dying without U.S. airlifts
By Jennifer Kay

Associated Press
Published: Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010 1:41 p.m. MST

MIAMI — The U.S. military has halted flights carrying Haitian earthquake victims to the United States because of an apparent cost dispute, though a doctor warned that some injured patients faced imminent death if the flights don't resume.

The evacuations were temporarily suspended Wednesday, said Capt. Kevin Aandahl, spokesman for U.S. Transportation Command. The flights were halted a day after Florida Gov. Charlie Crist asked the federal government to help pay for care.

However, Dr. Barth Green, a doctor involved in the relief effort in Port-au-Prince, warned that his patients needed to get to better hospitals.

"We have 100 critically ill patients who will die in the next day or two if we don't Medevac them," said Green, chairman of the University of Miami's Global Institute for Community Health and Development.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700005908/Doctor-Quake-victims-dying-without-US-airlifts.html?pg=1

[Judi Lynn]

1. This is so sad. It's human lives in grave danger NOW. Looks like New Orleans all over again.

They can't afford to screw around with this situation, if they are moral beings. While they're hoping it will all just go away, these people who waited under the rubble, and the people who found them will be hoping and praying they do THEIR part. It should be totally important to them if they are human.

[EFerrari]

2. This sounds horrible but it looks like a cull to me.

And I don't know qui bono. I don't understand.

[Judi Lynn]

3. You'd think they'd realize any help they could give would be GREAT P.R., more important

to them than any inconvenience or temporary expense.

They should trust the US government to be good for this, if they can't handle the cost.

Maybe the victims should all be caucasian, and braindead, like Terri Schiavo, with people wanting to pull the plug on them, then they'd be getting all the help from fundie wingers they could handle.