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New Orleans Residents Rally to Reopen Charity Hospital

HeadlineMar 27, 2006

And in New Orleans, residents are rallying for the city to reopen Charity Hospital, the city’s only Level 1 trauma center. The public hospital has been closed since Hurricane Katrina caused massive flooding that ruined the hospital’s electrical system. On Saturday about 100 doctors, former patients and other residents held a rally outside of the hospital.

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