Preserve Charity Hospital in N.O.
Posted on: Friday, 30 December 2005, 18:00 CST
Preserve Charity Hospital in N.O.
After reading the article in The New York Times about contemporary scalawags who want to destroy Charity Hospital in New Orleans, I am aghast.
Have they no hearts? After all the devastation we have suffered because of Katrina, do they think we need more? What we do need is the preservation of that grand old hospital, not just for its historic value but because it is the right thing to do.
Charity is the linchpin and soul of our medical establishment, and its continued existence is literally vital to the locals who depend upon it for health care. This quote from the Times strikes the deepest chord in me:
As one of the two oldest hospitals in North America it was founded in 1736, the same year as Bellevue Hospital in New York Charity has from the beginning been a symbol of a social commitment to the poor, and its wards are empty at a moment when thousands of poor New Orleans residents are struggling to return home and fear that government has abandoned them.
Ive spent all day talking to friends about this, and no one is in favor of anything except restoration. One citizen said he had heard LSU wants to move our medical schools to Baton Rouge. If they get away with that, they will choke off any growth in our medical complex here.
Even if Charity were not revitalized as a hospital, its still a huge, wonderful space that can be converted into anything, even housing, because this business of there being asbestos there is hogwash. Another quote from the Times: Veteran doctors at the hospital said the tiles were made of bagasse, a traditional Louisiana building material made from sugarcane residue.
Are we going to listen to those who dont have the best interests of our city in mind, or to our own people?
VELEKA GRAY 3433 U.S. 190 Mandeville
Source: Advocate; Baton Rouge, La.
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