Damage to Winston Medical Center deprived the county of 27 inpatient beds. Without the emergency room and physician’s offices, the only X-ray machine in Louisville is at the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s mobile hospital, a truck parked at Wal-Mart. Dr. Sam Suttle has been named the county’s medical director, with an eye to providing sufficient care to local residents. He is seeing patients at the only functioning physician’s office in Louisville, a storefront clinic on Main Street. “Our goal is ambulatory and emergency care,” Suttle said, until the hospital can be rebuilt. A federal field hospital is on its way from North Carolina, and officials hope to have it operational within two weeks. It could stay a year or longer. At least three other medical offices are likely to be set up, Suttle and other officials say.
Posted on: Tue, 06 May 2014 18:00:54 +0000
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