According to Lillibridge, there was not enough bed capacity in the entire state to receive patients from Texas Medical Center.
据Lillibridge说，整个州的医院病床数量不足，无法接收来自德州医学中心的患者。
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“Without water for toilets, laundry and food service the hospitals were down to their last 24 hours of patient services before throwing in the towel,” Lillibridge says.
In the words of Lillibridge: “The lack of water pressure to hospitals in Houston during the immediate post-disaster period almost resulted in one of the largest patient evacuations in history.”