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Southern medical journal · Sep 2006
Hurricane Katrina: medical response at the Houston Astrodome/Reliant Center Complex.
- Thomas F Gavagan, Kieran Smart, Herminia Palacio, Carmel Dyer, Stephen Greenberg, Paul Sirbaugh, Avrim Fishkind, Douglas Hamilton, Umair Shah, George Masi, R Todd Ivey, Julie Jones, Faye Y Chiou-Tan, Donna Bloodworth, David Hyman, Cliff Whigham, Valory Pavlik, Ralph D Feigin, and Kenneth Mattox.
- Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, 3701 Kirby, Suite 600, Houston, TX 77098, USA. tgavagan@bcm.edu
- South. Med. J. 2006 Sep 1; 99 (9): 933-9.
AbstractOn September 1, 2005, with only 12 hours notice, various collaborators established a medical facility--the Katrina Clinic--at the Astrodome/Reliant Center Complex in Houston. By the time the facility closed roughly two weeks later, the Katrina Clinic medical staff had seen over 11,000 of the estimated 27,000 Hurricane Katrina evacuees who sought shelter in the Complex. Herein, we describe the scope of this medical response, citing our major challenges, successes, and recommendations for conducting similar efforts in the future.
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