14 bodies found Thursday in Memorial Hosp - NO

[Mattie]

These reports I'm afraid will continue to come in . . .

http://www.cnn.com

[jpigott]

is this a different account from where they found 20-30 bodies at a hospital in the area the other day

[alicia-w]

yes

[LAwxrgal]

Quite frankly, I'm not surprised. Isn't this one of the hospitals that was without electricity during the storm?

[Mattie]

According to the story - they didn't know if it were patients or workers. But the basement of this building took on water very quickly.

[mf_dolphin]

We'll have to wait and see what the real story is since it's not unusual for patients to die in a hospital. A lot of time the hospital's morgue is in the basement as well...

[Mattie]

14 bodies found at New Orleans' Memorial Hospital

NEW ORLEANS (CNN) -- Fourteen bodies were found Thursday inside the flooded Memorial Hospital in this city, CNN's Karl Penhaul reported from the region.

It was not immediately clear if the 14 people were patients at the hospital or medical staff when floodwaters ripped through the facility.

Shrimp fishermen were in the process of removing the bodies, Penhaul reported. Steven Campanini, a spokesman for Tenet Hospitals, which operates Memorial Hospital and five others in the hurricane-affected area, said there were 2,000 people inside Memorial Hospital when the levees broke Tuesday. (Posted 3:16 p.m.)

[artist]

is that the one that went under water rather quickly?

[huricanwatcher]

Could these bodies been in the hospitals morgue?

[GalvestonDuck]

If someone in your family died recently, especially during Katrina, please don't read this. It's pretty clinical and cold-sounding, but comes from my experience in the ER. Just posting it for the sake of informing others.


It *may* have been easy to determine if they were from the morgue already, and if that's the case, the "deaths" should not have been counted as Katrina victims. The bodies would have been tied or zipped up in the post-mortem shroud or cadaver bag with toe-tag, wrist-tag, and tag on the bag. I would imagine most hospitals pretty much follow the same post-mortem care procedures. However, that's not to say a tag couldn't have come off or the bag couldn't have been washed away. Furthermore, if you've never actually opened one of the morgue drawers, I can tell you anything inside is pretty secure and not going to travel far.

[huricanwatcher]

If someone in your family died recently, especially during Katrina, please don't read this. It's pretty clinical and cold-sounding, but comes from my experience in the ER. Just posting it for the sake of informing others.


It *may* have been easy to determine if they were from the morgue already, and if that's the case, the "deaths" should not have been counted as Katrina victims. The bodies would have been tied or zipped up in the post-mortem shroud or cadaver bag with toe-tag, wrist-tag, and tag on the bag. I would imagine most hospitals pretty much follow the same post-mortem care procedures. However, that's not to say a tag couldn't have come off or the bag couldn't have been washed away. Furthermore, if you've never actually opened one of the morgue drawers, I can tell you anything inside is pretty secure and not going to travel far.

gruesomely honest but... thanks for the eloboration .... i thought after I posted that they probably would of been in the trays.. or had tags....