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Mississippi's Forgotten Opens First Medical Clinic

Mississippi's Forgotten has opened its first medical clinic in
devastated Waveland, Mississippi.

Mississippi's Forgotten Opens First Medical Clinic
Waveland, MS, November 28, 2005 --(PR.COM)-- Today, in Hancock County,
Mississippi, the county most devastated by Hurricane Katrina,
Mississippi\u2019s Forgotten is opening its first free medical
clinic. The clinic is to be the Bradley Stone Waveland Clinic, named
in honor of Brad Stone, a pre-medical student from Harvard, who, with
the help of other out-of-state volunteers, set up a medical clinic in
a parking lot that was active for almost three months, saw over 5000
patients and provide basic healthcare that was nowhere else
available. Mr. Stone noted \u201cOver half of our patients were in the
throes of a worsening of their chronic diseases \u2013 such as high
blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease and kidney
disease. Mississippi, especially Hancock County, has become,
overnight, a third world country where easily treatable disease have
become killers because of lack of access to basic health care and
basic medications.\u201d 

In addition, treated at the clinic were patients with conditions such
as a traumatic amputation of a leg from a chain saw, other traumatic
injuries suffered as a result of cleaning up debris and acute
infections such as sinusitis and pneumonia. Elizabeth Gallup, MD JD
MBA, founder and CEO of Mississippi\u2019s Forgotten who herself has
seen over 2000 patients from her vehicle since her arrival in early
September said \u201cright after the storm there was particulate
debris in the air and all the standing water was contaminated. The
particulate debris clogged up nasal and sinus passages resulting in
sinusitis, which in some individuals developed into bronchitis and
pneumonia. Unfortunately, the germs down here are tremendous and do
not respond to antibiotics typically used in non-disaster settings; we
have had to resort to high cost, broad spectrum antibiotics \u2013
however \u2013 these donated antibiotics have saved many lives.\u201d