“It’s going to have an impact on a lot of people, because nobody is going to want to stay for a storm again.”

The doctor who stayed when others left now faces murder charges. Other doctors left her to deal with the suffering patients:

Overheated patients were dying around her, and only a few could be taken away by helicopter, the only means of escape for the most fragile patients until the water receded. Medicines were running low, and with no electricity, patients living on machines were running out of battery power. In the chaos, Dr. Pou was left to care for many patients she did not know.

The Attorney General contends that Dr. Anna M. Pou and two nurses gave lethal injections to at least four patients:

At least three employees said Dr. Pou had talked of administering “lethal doses” of morphine to those patients. One also saw her with packs of morphine and syringes, and another witness said that out of the corner of her eye, she saw one of the two nurses inject one of the patients with something.