前立委林惠官凌晨病逝台大醫院

2009-08-26
新聞速報 【中央社】

前親民黨籍立法委員、並於今年 5月中宣布爭取國民黨年底連江縣長選舉提名的林惠官，今天凌晨 6時55分病逝台大醫院。連江縣長陳雪生及林惠官在馬祖好友們聞訊都感到難過與惋惜。

　林惠官出生於民國46年，馬祖莒光鄉人，畢業於台北工專，曾任中華民國全國總工會理事長及親民黨籍不分區立法委員。

　林惠官是於今年 7月中進行頸椎手術，手術後並透過馬祖當地媒體表示情況良好，並預定 2週後出院；不料，手術後併發感染和敗血症，轉往台大醫院治療。家屬今天上午緊急以書面對外宣布此一不幸消息。

　林惠官現任馬祖酒廠董事長，今年 5月16日在陳雪生及連江縣議會議長陳振清等好友陪同下，前往國民黨連江縣黨部登記參選連江縣縣長黨內初選。對於林惠官驟逝，馬祖鄉親聞訊都感到震驚。980826

幼童病逝家屬抗議 秀傳醫院強調沒疏失

2009-08-26
新聞速報
【中廣新聞／李河錫】
彰化發生第一起新流感死亡病例，不幸病逝男童家屬今天再度會同兩百多位親友，高舉白布條、沿路灑冥紙前往彰化秀傳總院抗議，質疑院方誤判病情、延誤醫療又隱匿疫情！院方強調沒有疏失，已善盡治療與轉診之責﹔全案由縣府衛生局介入調查中。

新流感疫情來勢洶洶，一週內國內就發生三起不幸死亡病例，重症病例也持續增加﹔其中彰化第一起不幸感染新流感死亡的六歲幼童，其家屬因高度質疑負責收治的彰化秀傳醫院誤判病情、延誤醫療又蓄意對家長隱匿疫情！對要求轉院還一再推託，二十六號再度邀集兩百多位鄉親朋友高舉白布條、沿路灑冥紙前往彰化秀傳總院高聲抗議。

秀傳醫院小兒科主任則出面表示，因當初還沒有快速篩檢機制，才無法立即判定感染新流感﹔因此從受治到轉診約一個禮拜期間，都沒有使用過克流感，但院方還是強調，已善盡治療與轉診之責，並沒有疏失。

而家屬則抨擊院方的解釋，與疾管局指示克流感使用時機有相當大的落差，即使是類流感重症早也應該使用克流感，因此更加悲憤指控院方說謊、推託，要求疾管局應派員調查，不要讓他可愛活潑的孩子枉死，他們不要錢、只是要個道歉與公道。

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More than 500 Feared Dead in Taiwan

Government says 15,000 Rescued from Villages Buried in Mud after Devastating Typhoon Morakot


(CBS/AP) Barefoot and helmeted, the frightened survivors of deadly Typhoon Morakot dangled high over jagged rocks and a raging river as soldiers hauled them to safety one by one along a 100-foot-long cable.

On the far side, a few dozen waited near a hand-painted sign on the craggy foundation of a destroyed bridge: "32 people died here SOS."

The perilous rescue was part of a massive military effort to save hundreds of stranded villagers after the worst flooding to hit Taiwan in 50 years. Some 15,000 villagers have been rescued since the typhoon struck five days ago; hundreds more are feared missing or dead.

Scores of villages in the rural south of Taiwan were devastated by the typhoon. One of the worst affected is Shiao Lin, where authorities estimated 400 people died in a catastrophic mudslide spawned by days of torrential rain.

As criticism mounted Thursday over Taiwan's response to the disaster, the government dispatched another 4,000 troops to work with the 14,000 already deployed. Many of them are working in Kaohsiung County, a mountainous farming region in southern Taiwan.

The rugged terrain and widespread devastation played havoc with rescue efforts following the storm, which dumped 80 inches of rain on the island over the weekend.

Soldiers in fatigues and heavy gloves resorted to using a makeshift zipline to haul survivors from the village of Sinkai over the Ba Si Lan River where the bridge was wiped out. For hours they labored, rescuing everyone from a young boy in shorts to an elderly woman who brought along a couple of shopping bags worth of belongings.

Unbuckled from their harnesses, villagers looked dazed and frightened as they recalled the harrowing night of Aug. 8.

"It rained for days," said Li Wen-chuan, a grizzled-looking man of 68 with sparse salt-and-pepper hair, teeth stained red by years of betel nut chewing. "But the flood came so suddenly and with a tremendous roar. It destroyed everything in the village."

"This is the worst thing that has ever happened to me," he said, adding that many of the 32 who died in village were friends and family. "My life will never be the same."

Pan Yi-chang, a 32-year-old mother of two, said that when the rains spawned by Morakot began to fall, she had no inkling that this typhoon would be any different from others.

The ravaged villages - most of them scattered in neighboring townships in northern Kaohsiung County - are typically located next to mountains, and they usually have to brace for mudslides during Taiwan's annual typhoon season during June to September.

But this time was different, residents said.

"Everything happened so fast. Flooding just destroyed everything," said Pan, adding that she was lucky because all of her family survived - her husband, her two children and her mother and father.

As she spoke, Pan gazed longingly across the river toward the only home she has ever known, a close-knit community of 1,000 whose economy is based on growing mangos and guavas.

In the background, a heavy mist enveloped the summit of a nearby mountain and torrents of water cascaded down its dark green facades.

Taiwan's official death toll from the storm now stands at 116, with another 59 listed as missing. That does not include the toll in Shiao Lin and other remote communities. Taiwan's Disaster Relief Center estimated Friday that as many as 400 people were buried at Shiao Lin.

Many of those rescued say they can never return to their villages because there is nothing left to return to.

Li, the grizzled veteran of Sinkai, is not one of them.

"I am going back," he said. "Sinkai is where my roots are. I have no other place to go."

Many complained that the government was too slow to mobilize the rescue and cleanup effort, saying more victims could have been saved if they had moved sooner and faster.

"Why does the government say only useless things?" a woman eager to learn the fate of relatives trapped in Kaochung village in the south asked. With tears filling her eyes, she told TV reporters: "I've been waiting for several days, yet there has not been anyone going to rescue my family."

In a short interview with CNN, President Ma Ying-jeou blamed the severe damage brought by the flooding on villagers' inability to get out of their communities before the storm.

Authorities in Kaohsiung County did ask inhabitants from the villages most severely battered by Morakot to leave before the storm, but they did not try to forcibly remove the residents, and some villagers decided against leaving.

"They were not fully prepared. If they were, they should have been evacuated much earlier," Ma said. "They didn't realize how serious the disaster was."

Ma did not comment on whether the government was doing enough to help with the evacuation.

Troops were working Thursday to restore severed roads, rehabilitate ravaged neighborhood and ferry typhoon victims to safety in dozens of helicopter missions.

So far some 15,400 villagers have been rescued - including 2,200 on Thursday, the island's disaster relief center said. Another 1,900 villagers were staying either in open fields or on higher ground and waiting to be taken to shelters, it said. Several hundred more - no one is sure how many - remain unaccounted for and are feared lost in the mudslides.

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"有人在潑水?" 網友看氣象局衛星雲圖 直喊詭異

莫拉克颱風肆虐，中央氣象局原本預估嘉義以北會有豪大雨，結果卻是東南部及南部地區降下驚人豪雨，氣象局被罵慘了。而有網友在昨（九）日的中央氣象局的衛星雲圖上，發現「一個人拿著水桶對著台灣潑水」的圖像，大呼真是太巧、太詭異了。
氣象局從六日到九日之間，不斷上修雨量預測，從1100毫米飆升到2900毫米，平地降雨量也一再上修，相較於美國有線電視新聞網(CNN)的天氣預報，似乎失去準頭。CNN氣象主播在七日就預測，莫拉克雖然只是中度颱風，但卻有超級颱風的破壞力，雨量會非常驚人，將為台灣帶來土石流及大洪水，並且相當罕見的在幾乎每個整點，都以重點處理播報。
對此，中央氣象局預報中心副主任林秀雯表示，雨量要準確預測相當困難，將分析所需要的相關資料都匯整輸入電腦之後，還要不斷修正才能做出最接近正確的評估，而且準確率大概只有在兩到三成，尤其這次莫拉克颱風瞬間暴降的大雨，造成的短時間累積雨量，竟然已經逼近一年的總雨量，實在非常罕見。
莫拉克豪雨災情引起全民關注，有網友表示，這次颱風不但雨勢驚人，連氣象的衛星雲圖也有詭異的巧合。九日下午四點左右的氣象雲圖，可以看見「一個人拿著水桶對著台灣潑水」的畫面。林秀雯說，這個人頭型的雲團，是在昨天晚上形成的第九號颱風艾陶(Etau)，這個颱風行徑是朝向日本，目前對台灣不會有影響。

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