Covenant Children’s NICU Caregivers stepped up to help when they heard about the evacuations in Corpus Christi due to Hurricane Harvey.
“I don’t know if you all remember Hurricane Katrina, but our state was not very prepared to help. It kinda makes me cry,” Sally Dillashaw, a RN-NICU at Covenant Children’s said.
“Those nurses had to stay with the babies, they did not evacuate, they had very limited resources for three to five days, no clothing and it was hot,” Reid Fry, a RN-PICU for Covenant Children’s said.
Because of that Dillashaw said the State of Texas developed a hurricane plan and once Hurricane Harvey started heading towards the coast the hurricane plan was put into motion.
“Luckily when we got there they had one patient left that needed our specific transport team, we went in thinking it would be chaotic but it was pretty calm,” Fry said.
“We actually picked up a baby that was born at 1:30 p.m. yesterday. He was really cute and tiny, we picked him up and put him on our ventilator and on our special pumps and flew him to Methodist Hospital in San Antonio,” Dillashaw said.
The baby’s mother did follow in a FEMA bus caring 40 other patients to San Antonio.
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