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The good news is that all of the patients came through safely. our team to good care of them, and they have weathered this storm and now on the other side, just dealing with the aftermath. >> how long can you run on the backup generators, and has patient care been affected? >> patient care has not been affected, lawrence, fortunately, the generators give us lights and power for all of the medical equipment and all of the patient care areas. it's really only the non essential areas, like my office for example, that don't have air conditioning or lights. so we're in the dark in those sorts of ar...

But other all, we did reasonably well. we lost power, like everyone else in the city of new orleans and went on the backup generators. we're still on those today. but the good news is that all of the patients came through safely. our team took good care of them and they have weathered the storm and now we're on the other side and it is just dealing with the aftermath. >> how long can you run on the backup generators, and has patient care been affected? >> patient care has not been affected, lawrence, fortunately. the generators give us lights and power for all of the medical equipment in all o...

The past couple of months and that has been exhausting for our personnel and our doctors. the hospitals have been very full, almost every hospital louisiana. and about the lasting in the world that we needed was a category four hurricane, that you know, here it is. we've been locked down since early yesterday morning about 6 am. we brought in a group of doctors and nurses and other health care professionals, and we locked the doors, and we literally wrote this thing out. we had substantial, but not structural damage to our hospital. we were more fortunate than others. we have some water on the...

Reporting that the doctor had to manually pump air into patients' lungs because the backup generators failed. have you know what they are doing with the patients in the hospital? >> typically they will have generators in hospitals. especially in a storm-prone area. we had reports that patients were being moved. so we know some people in some places have been moved around. you have significant power outages. but most hospitals are equipped with backup generators for situations like this. >> you mentioned there have been one confirmed death. there was nothing you heard on the ground as far as ad...

Coast and worked in houston and new orleans for virtually my entire career, and i was quite impressed with the planning that the hospitals did. and i think that it's been reflected in how things have turned out today. >> oh, last few seconds, dr. klein. power has been steady where you are? you haven't had any outages? >> so, we really have lost city power entirely. we're working on backup generators right now. i'm in kind of a makeshift area here. the patient care areas are secure regarding power. the nonessential areas of the hospital are dark. >> got you. dr. mark klein and dr. durrani in ho...