Thursday, September 08, 2005
What Dr. Hemant Vankawala saw
Blogborygmi has been posting correspondence from Vankawala...pretty grim stuff. He's been interviewed by WFAA.com | News for Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas | News 8:
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h/t KevinMd
Clink link above to read the whole thing
"Dr. Hemant Vankawala, a young emergency room physician from Denton Regional Medical Center, was one of hundreds of medical personnel from around the country assigned provide medical care.
'People back home and all over the rest of the country may never understand how many thousands of people are coming through here constantly,' he said. 'It's a constant chain of people.'
Dr. Vankawala explained that some of the patients were sick; others were elderly nursing home residents. There were children, newborn babies and patients on ventilators.
'The sick ones we leave down here until we can slowly get them onto a transport to somewhere else,' Dr. Vankawala explained.
For others, though, there was no hope of survival."
h/t KevinMd
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With all do respect, the members of the N.O. ARFF Team are quite disturbed by the story that is being told by one of your team members.
Below is the link that will take you to this story.
We are not lessening the fact that your team was greatly needed, but your team did not do it all alone. I would like to get contact info for Dr. Hemant H. Vankawala so that the N.O. ARFF Team can let him know what went on for three days prior to his arrival. We also wonder if he ever looked out of the window at Delta 2 and actually saw who was controlling the flight line.
Please don't take this the wrong way, but fair is fair.
Thanks for your help in this matter.
Gary Simon
N.O. ARFF Team
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Below is the link that will take you to this story.
We are not lessening the fact that your team was greatly needed, but your team did not do it all alone. I would like to get contact info for Dr. Hemant H. Vankawala so that the N.O. ARFF Team can let him know what went on for three days prior to his arrival. We also wonder if he ever looked out of the window at Delta 2 and actually saw who was controlling the flight line.
Please don't take this the wrong way, but fair is fair.
Thanks for your help in this matter.
Gary Simon
N.O. ARFF Team
The message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments:
Shortcut to: http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsitems/2005/050919msy.html
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