Memorial Medical Center and Hurricane Katrina

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Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans, Louisiana was heavily damaged when Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. Following the storm, as the hospital lost power and went through severe flooding due to the levee failures, Dr. Anna Pou and other medical staff worked to care for patients under dire conditions, with allegations that Pou played a big role in the death of the patients. On September 11, 45 bodies were recovered from Memorial Medical Center, about five of whom had died before the disaster (originally thought to be eleven). Out of an estimated 215 bodies found in nursing homes and hospitals in New Orleans, Memorial had the largest number. In July 2006, a Louisiana judge found probable cause to order the arrest of Pou and two nurses for second degree murder in the deaths of several of the patients, following a nearly year-long investigation by the office of Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti. However, a year later a grand jury in Orleans Parish refused...

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