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Judge Barefoot Sanders ruled that the alliance take nothing in its suit against Parkland Memo rial Hospital and ordered it dismissed. “The court does not minimize the seriousness of AIDS, AIDS-related Complex and HIV infec tion,” Sanders said in his 29-page opinion. “It may be that this community should devote more resources to this menacing and so far irremedia ble problem; that is a question of important pub lic policy, which it is not for this court to deter mine.” The judge also rejected a move by the alliance to institute a class action in the suit. The Ameri can Civil Liberties Union had joined the gay alli ance in the discrimination suit, saying it could set a precedent for hospitals around the country. “We’re obviously disappointed, but I also think we’ve declared a victory of sort. When started, there was a waiting list for AZT. Now a year later, under threat of judicial action, there’s over 300 people receiving the drug,” said William Way- bourn, president of the Dallas Gay Alliance. “After our lawsuit was filed, the plaintiffs were treated with kid gloves, they were given the best care available,” Waybourn said, adding that two of the five .plaintiffs have died since the suit was filed last May. “We believe that opinion vindicates Parkland regarding all of the allegations which were brought by the Dallas Gay Alliance,” Parkland administrator Ron Anderson said. The alliance claimed that AIDS patients were discriminated against and received inadequate health care at Parkland’s AIDS clinic. The suit al- h i inadequately stalled and drugs were not learijml available. “Although plaintiffs disagree with the i fendants as to adequacy of staffing and non-rot tion of medical students at the AIDS clinic,pi tiffs have not demonstrated an actual threatened injury caused by the alleged staffi deficiencies,” Sanders wrote. Fr A1 hut alien ! addii Ihei “W, He said plaintiffs and all other eligible patic e’re obviously disappointed, but I also think we’ve declared a victory of sort. When started, there was a waiting list for AZT. Now a year later, under threat of judicial action, there’s over 300 people receiving the drug.” T1 — William Waybourn, president of the Dallas Gay Alliance legecl the hospital failed to provide “readily avail able” medical treatments that included the drugs AZT and Pentamidine. The judge dismissed claims that the clinic was now have access to appointments, AZT and Pc tamidine at Parkland AIDS clinic. One testif ied he could get an appointment at tiiec j’ within an hour. ■* Waybourn said the alliance would watch[:M cn hospital, which is required by law to providekj" ^ gent health care in Dallas County, and filerlL^ other lawsuit if its care of A1 DS patients slippdSf ■ . The day after the suit was filed, state DisitM^ Judge John M. Marshall signed a temporal]M ‘ c straining order instructing Parkland to eliinkiE° m the waiting list and begin offering experimerw ^ s treatment to indigent AIDS patients who need;® Less than a week later, Dr. Daniel Barbarc L ( signed as chief of Parkland’s AIDS c l' n ' c leaders viewed Barbaro as a scapegoat fortB hospital’s difficulties. ^|lj, BEg ( Anderson had blamed Barbaro in April l 1 ;®^) lor the clinic’s difficulties, saying he created: rale problems among the staff and failed to the most of available resources. ■ c I ■jc ' to se Senator says rural hospitals face slow death allow Border Patrol cutbacks Drop in immigrant numbers coult |da\s Se Falls WASHINGTON (AP) — The health-care system in rural America will crumble if quick changes aren’t made to reverse a Medicare re- imbursement’system that has caused the “slow starvation” of rural hospi tals, Sen. Tom Harkin told a Senate panel Thursday. Members of the Senate Finance Committee agreed Medicare’s sys tem for reimbursing urban hospitals at a higher rate than their rural counterparts is unfair and largely re sponsible for putting rural hospitals on frail financial footing. Health and Human Services Sec retary Louis W. Sullivan, meanwhile, has recommended rural and large urban hospitals receive greater Medicare payment increases next fiscal year than urban hospitals. Minority Leader Bob Dole and Fi nance Committee Chairman Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, have introduced legislation that calls for phasing in a uniform Medicare reimbursement rate beginning 1991. “If we don’t act quickly to change Medicare’s Prospective Payment Sys tem, the health care system in rural America will crumble,” Harkin said. “If that happens, we will be forced not very long from now to take dx as- tic measures — with a drastic price tag—- to rebuild it.” McALLEN (AP) — A sharp drop in the number of Central Americans trying to enter the United States prompted the Border Patrol to scale back extra forces detailed to the South Texas border, an official said Thursday. Immigration officials say the drop in apprehensions means get-tough policies are discouraging Central Americans from coming here to file frivolous applications for political asylum. From January to March, the Bor der Patrol’s McAllen Sector added 192 extra agents to stem a flood of “other-than-Mexican,” or so-called OTM, aliens — mostly Central Americans — entering the country illegally. The bulk of the extra agents brought in from other parts of the country patrolled in the Brownsville area, the closest border .crossing point to Nicaragua, El Sal vador, Honduras and Guatemala. The agency began detaining nearly all of those apprehended, rather than releasing most on their own recognizance, as it had been doing. nently stationed in the McAllen Sec tor. Central American apprehensions in South Texas have fallen from 200-250 a day in early March to a current level of 50-60 a day, Vickery said. He said the word of a crackdown has reached Central America. detained, then your case is heardi™ mediately. It’s not like it was befal when they were released andtral eled north never to be heard frocl again.” “There’s no free pass,” Vickery said. “If you’re caught here you are INS officials also say the numkl of people turning themselves inhP untarily to apply for political asyl™ has plummeted from 500 a dar:f ! January to a current level of fwB than 10 daily in South Texas. _ . ! pit U.S. shelters overflow | with child immigrants Under the prospective payment system, hospitals are reimbursed for the average costs of their elderly Medicare patients and not on actual costs. Enacted by Congress in 1983, the system has meant rural hospitals are reimbursed by as much as 40 percent less than urban hospitals, according to testimony. Its crackdown accompanied an Immigration and Naturalization Service policy that began Feb. 21, in which asylum applicants are proc essed in one day and immediately detained if their initial claims to ref ugee status are denied. The number of extra Border Pa trol agents in South Texas has been cut to 102, and may be reduced fur ther if apprehensions continue to drop, said E.J. Vickery, assistant chief of the Border Patrol’s McAllen Sector. There are 395 agents perma- LOS F RES NOS, Texas (AP) — Childhood ends somewhere between Central America and the Rio Grande for young immigrants who slip into the United States without their parents. Border Patrol agents in South Texas say they’ve found children as young as 4 traveling without adults, some abandoned by the alien smug glers known as “coyotes” to fend for themselves on the crime-infested riv- erbank that marks the Mexican bor der. By the time they find a temporary refuge at government-sponsored shelters in South Texas, many of the children carry with them stories of rape, robbery, physical abuse, intim idation and extortion at the hands of alien smugglers or corrupt officials of the countries along their route. “They become men and women by the time they get here,” said Ale jandro Flores, director of the national Emergency Shelter for in —&—y 'ftprot migrant children in Raymondviljf about 45 miles north of the bordei The exodus of thousands ofC»I tral Americans seeking political!'’jj lum in the United States hascau»| a crisis in southern Texas, where() I immigrants have filled to overdo* E ing a detention camp and RedCrost shelters and overwhelmed medfel and legal aid systems. | Since July, when the First sped) I shelter for child immigrants opend | in Los Fresnos, more than 600 ci | dren have been housed there and ; , Raymondville. 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