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Article: New Orleans convention center once again a last resort _ this time for medical care
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- AP Worldstream
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- February 24, 2006
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RUKMINI CALLIMACHI, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
02-24-2006
Dateline: NEW ORLEANS
Angela Jaster was wearing a turtleneck when she fell and broke her arm and so for days, she didn't change her shirt, because she couldn't raise her arm.
The swelling stretched the fabric. Even though the pain was nearly unbearable, she did not consider going to the hospital, because in this flooded city there is only one for the uninsured and it doesn't treat broken bones.
It was only when the pain sent her into a hyperventilating panic several weeks later that her family called an ambulance and had her taken to the convention center.
In the same concrete structure where thousands of fleeing families ...