About 150 doctors and other medical workers demonstrated on Saturday outside the shuttered Charity Hospital in New Orleans, insisting that state officials reverse their decision to shut down the facility permanently because of damage from Hurricane Katrina, The Times-Picayune reported today. Charity, a teaching hospital of Louisiana State University, was declared a total loss last fall after post-hurricane flooding left it with more than $900-million in damage (The Chronicle, November 8, 2005). The protesters said current medical facilities in New Orleans were inadequate for the needs of the population. The university issued a statement saying that a rethinking of the decision to close the hospital was not in the cards. New Orleans will mark the seven-month anniversary this week of the hurricane’s landfall and the subsequent devastation and depopulation of the city (see Chronicle in-depth coverage).