Puerto Rico is still suffering
after hurricane Maria. The disaster medical teams aren’t even organized
meanwhile there seems to be disasters popping up everywhere often. A Doctor,
Doctor Khanna quit the Puerto Rico response team called NDMS, the National
Disaster Medical System, after witnessing the Trump government’s mismanagement of the situation. She has been
doing disaster relief missions for the past 20 years and is appalled by what nonsense
is going on with this failed effort. There was a Spa Day ORGANIZED by Federal staff for
themselves in the middle of the disaster. They used the triage tents that
should be used for victims to house spa treatments. They brought in people to
give themselves nail treatments and pedicures.
They were getting paid to have
spa treatments. The doctor who quit wrote, ”I find this gross misuse of
taxpayer funds and abuse of our privileged positions personally abhorrent.
Medical personnel responsible for seeing injured and ill Puerto Ricans who have
no homes, food or supplies having a “spa day” on taxpayer money. I can no
longer serve with honor.” Instead of wearing sterile scrub boots they were
wearing flip flops to dry their pedicures in what should have been sterile
areas.
People are now dying in Puerto
Rico from treatable bacterial infections because of the lack of proper care. Desperate
people have been drinking from polluted creeks and streams for water. The huge
Naval Hospital Ship is docked in Puerto Rico but is not letting people on board
to treat them. The ship has 800 beds and modern equipment to treat just about
any illness. Three weeks after the disaster there is only 7 patients on board?
Why?
There are 800 medical staff
people on board. The ship is even capable to manufacture drinking water. Why
isn’t that being distributed? This is an organizational failure not that the
storm is too big a failure anymore. The storm is no longer killing Americans.
The Federal response to the storm is now killing Americans.
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