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Insight: Sandy shows hospitals unprepared when disaster hits home

Kim Bondy was in New Orleans seven years ago when Hurricane Katrina devastated the city, and scores of patients died in flooded hospitals cut off from power. She never thought that she might face that danger herself.

 

Who's running Haiti? No one, say the people

Who's running Haiti? No one, say the people

Desperate Haitians turned rubble-strewn streets and parks into makeshift hospitals and refugee camps on Thursday in the absence of any noticeable response from authorities in Haiti after Tuesday's earthquake.

 

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