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</aside>   <p>Dr. <a href="http://www.austintexas.gov/biography/medical-director-and-health-authority">Phil Huang</a>, medical director and health authority for Austin Public Health in the state capital, urges people to clean wounds with soap and water. "Certainly, there can be contamination with high levels of water — fecal contamination, things like that."</p>   <p>He also warns that well water could be contaminated as a result of flooding. He says it's important that people boil water for at least a minute before using it, or get bottled water.</p>   <p>Huang says in the days ahead, safety concerns could include carbon monoxide poisoning in households using generators; the <a href="https://www.fda.gov/Food/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/ucm076881.htm">consumption of contaminated food</a> stored without refrigeration; and injuries suffered when people try to get back to their homes. Longer term, he says, mold will be an issue.</p>   <p>Huang says one of Austin's community health centers has set up mobile clinics to help people in shelters there who need prescription drugs, either by filling existing prescriptions or writing new ones as necessary.</p>   <p>The state has also contracted with the grocery chain H-E-B to work with patients on filling prescriptions as long as there is some way to verify the prescription, Van Deusen says.</p>   <p>A total of 14 hospitals have been evacuated in the affected region since Friday, he says, noting that two emergency departments have since reopened.</p>   <p>On Monday morning, MD Anderson Cancer Center, one of the country's top cancer hospitals, <a href="https://twitter.com/MDAndersonNews">tweeted</a> that it was closed for all patient appointments. Since Sunday, the hospital has been surrounded by water, and roads have been impassable. Staff continue to care for hospitalized patients.</p>   <div id="res546815127" class="bucketwrap twitter large graphic624" aria-label="Tweet">
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   <p>"Our patients are safe," tweeted Dr. Karen Lu, chair of gynecologic oncology at MD Anderson, on Sunday.</p>   <p>Starting last week, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission has been contacting long-term care facilities in the state to ask about evacuation and shelter plans, according to commission spokeswoman Carrie Williams.</p>   <p>As of midafternoon Monday, 39 nursing facilities and 19 assisted living facilities housing more than 2,280 residents had been evacuated, according to Williams.</p>   <p>"[We] will continue to contact providers to assess unmet needs," she wrote in an email. "If we spot an emergency situation, we refer that to the State Operations Center and/or law enforcement as warranted."</p>   <div id="res547559859" class="bucketwrap twitter large graphic624" aria-label="Tweet">
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