LSUHSC employees protest future plans for facility
By: Marquel Sennet
Updated: September 27, 2012
LSU Health
Sciences Center employees and community members are hoping their voices will be
heard. Protestors wanted
the public to know they don't support the plan to privatize the medical center.
About a
dozen employees and union leaders held a protest in front of the hospital
Wednesday morning. They're worried the
uninsured won't have a place to go and protesters don't want the quality of
care to change.
They're
hoping their voices will be heard by lawmakers and Gov. Bobby Jindal. State Representative Barbara Norton says
nothing has been finalized in regards to the hospital's future. She wants the public to know she won't vote
to privatize the facility.
This discussion
comes now because the LSU System is going to face $860 million in cuts. Last month some local lawmakers and school
officials visited a university hospital that was privatized more than a decade
ago. State Senator Barrow Peacock went
on the trip -- telling us it was a fact-finding mission and nothing has been
finalized.
