NEW ORLEANS – The New Orleans coroner called a news conference to "announce new developments" in the deaths of patients at the Memorial Medical Center after Hurricane Katrina.
A spokesman for Dr. Frank Minyard's office said on Thursday that Minyard would talk about his study of cases at the hospital.
At least 34 people died at Memorial after the 2005 storm. Dr. Anna Pou, and two nurses were arrested in connection with the deaths but a grand jury declined to indict them.
District attorney Leon Cannizzaro had asked in January for an autopsy report for 79-year-old Jannie Burgess, who was in the care of Dr. Ewing Cook. Cannizzaro was trying to decide if the death should be classified as a homicide.
