BY ROBERT TANNER and VICKI SMITH • AP • September 3, 2008 NEW ORLEANS -- The road home for the estimated 2 million Hurricane Gustav evacuees was slow going Tuesday, as those trying to filter into the coast were greeted by police checkpoints and...

Power outages caused by Hurricane Gustav, have forced state officials to transport scores of patients from hospitals and other medical facilities, for fear they could not survive long without air conditioning.

The State's Secretary of Health and Hospitals, Alan Levine said, these patients were critically ill, and a few were from hospital burn units. It's been reported that none of the patients had died during the recent evacuation. Levine further added that 139 affected residents had been evacuated in serious condition. "Our goal throughout this has been to minimise the loss of life and to protect our folks," he said.

More than 1.4 million power outages have been reported in the South since Hurricane Gustav passed through on September 1 (2008). The state estimated that almost 700 patients in a dozen Louisiana hospitals, may have to be evacuated over the next three days because the...
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