Project Katrina

I first wrote about this back in mid-October. Since then I’ve not seen any additional coverage in the main stream media. And even now, the coverage (more here and here) is only in publications like the Melbourne Herald Sun and the Baptist News. If any one has any links or where I might be able to locate the court records, your input would be very welcome.

Lethal doses of drugs may have been administered to New Orleans hospital patients too sick to be evacuated as Hurricane Katrina bore down on the city, it has been claimed.

According to court documents, four hospital administrators heard of plans to give patients lethal doses, although witnesses said they did not know who made the decision to do so.

The documents reveal a doctor and two nurses with syringes of morphine were seen entering rooms of patients left behind at Memorial Medical Centre.

Lawyers for the long-term care facility that leased the floor on which those patients were located, reported the conduct of the doctor and nurses to the Louisiana Attorney-General’s office on September 14, last year. Hurricane Katrina struck on August 29.

The court documents say the centre’s senior staff were told the evacuation plan for the floor was to "not leave any living patients behind" and that "a lethal dose would be administered"