Other survivors recounted horrific cases of sexual assault and murder.
Sitting with her daughter and other relatives, Trolkyn Joseph, 37, said men had wandered the cavernous convention center in recent nights raping and murdering children.
She said she found a dead 14-year old girl at 5 a.m. on Friday morning, four hours after the young girl went missing from her parents inside the convention center.
"She was raped for four hours until she was dead," Joseph said through tears. "Another child, a seven-year old boy was found raped and murdered in the kitchen freezer last night."
At one point Friday, the evacuation was interrupted briefly when school buses pulled up so some 700 guests and employees from the Hyatt Hotel could move to the head of the evacuation line — much to the amazement of those who had been crammed in the Superdome since last Sunday.
"How does this work? They (are) clean, they are dry, they get out ahead of us?" exclaimed Howard Blue, 22, who tried to get in their line. The National Guard blocked him as other guardsmen helped the well-dressed guests with their luggage.
Other survivors recounted horrific cases of sexual assault and murder.
Sitting with her daughter and other relatives, Trolkyn Joseph, 37, said men had wandered the cavernous convention center in recent nights raping and murdering children.
She said she found a dead 14-year old girl at 5 a.m. on Friday morning, four hours after the young girl went missing from her parents inside the convention center.
"She was raped for four hours until she was dead," Joseph said through tears. "Another child, a seven-year old boy was found raped and murdered in the kitchen freezer last night."
At one point Friday, the evacuation was interrupted briefly when school buses pulled up so some 700 guests and employees from the Hyatt Hotel could move to the head of the evacuation line — much to the amazement of those who had been crammed in the Superdome since last Sunday.
"How does this work? They (are) clean, they are dry, they get out ahead of us?" exclaimed Howard Blue, 22, who tried to get in their line. The National Guard blocked him as other guardsmen helped the well-dressed guests with their luggage.
Charity is the hospital where most of the city's poor are taken.
Other hospitals in the city had patients evacuated earlier but as of today there were still 200 patients in Charity. Several of these were ICU patients, many of them ventilator dependent. There is no power and no gas to run the generator. Therefore each of these patients is being manually breathed with a device called an Ambu bag which is being held by a nurse,doctor or respiratory therapist.
I've bagged patients before..it's hard work and after about fifteen minutes you feel as if your arm will fall off. These people have been doing it for days now.
There have already been deaths at Charity..bodies are stacked in the
stairwells because the morgue is flooded and there is no place to put them. Yesterday medical staff was shot at by snipers as they tried to
get patients out..two nurses were hit.
Two patients that actually got out died after being taken across the street on a boat, then
transported up eight flights of stairs to a helipad. These were ventilated patients being bagged by a staff member.
These employees have had very little water, only crackers to eat and no sleep in days. They're using porta potties at the end of hallways,
making rounds by flashlight and relying on their common sense to take care of patients. Two nurses were telling the story about how they had
to take turns starting IVs on one another in order to get hydrated because the drinking water wasn't safe.
The head of infectious disease at Charity said that there have been nurses coming down with diarrhea and stomach pains from unsanitary conditions. This will only get worse. I read earlier tonight that they hope to have everyone out of Charity by in the morning. They've been saying that for days. Staff from the other hospitals in the city were evacuated today. The brave men and women at Charity are still there...taking care of their patients.
Charity is the hospital where most of the city's poor are taken.
Other hospitals in the city had patients evacuated earlier but as of today there were still 200 patients in Charity. Several of these were ICU patients, many of them ventilator dependent. There is no power and no gas to run the generator. Therefore each of these patients is being manually breathed with a device called an Ambu bag which is being held by a nurse,doctor or respiratory therapist.
I've bagged patients before..it's hard work and after about fifteen minutes you feel as if your arm will fall off. These people have been doing it for days now.
There have already been deaths at Charity..bodies are stacked in the
stairwells because the morgue is flooded and there is no place to put them. Yesterday medical staff was shot at by snipers as they tried to
get patients out..two nurses were hit.
Two patients that actually got out died after being taken across the street on a boat, then
transported up eight flights of stairs to a helipad. These were ventilated patients being bagged by a staff member.
These employees have had very little water, only crackers to eat and no sleep in days. They're using porta potties at the end of hallways,
making rounds by flashlight and relying on their common sense to take care of patients. Two nurses were telling the story about how they had
to take turns starting IVs on one another in order to get hydrated because the drinking water wasn't safe.
The head of infectious disease at Charity said that there have been nurses coming down with diarrhea and stomach pains from unsanitary conditions. This will only get worse. I read earlier tonight that they hope to have everyone out of Charity by in the morning. They've been saying that for days. Staff from the other hospitals in the city were evacuated today. The brave men and women at Charity are still there...taking care of their patients.
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