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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Doctors, former patients and preservationists rallied outside a public hospital that closed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, urging officials not to abandon the shuttered medical center.
Charity Hospital, the city's only Level 1 trauma center, was closed after its basement flooded, ruining its electrical system.
Officials have said the hospital cannot be saved because of asbestos in the interior and bacteria that flourished in the steamy, late-summer air after the Aug. 29 hurricane.
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