Just enough power for light, no ventilation and the toilets aren't working - and there isn't a big stockpile of food and water.
Not the place, IMO, to take patients unless they aren't very sick.
This may just be a stopgap measure until they can get them all evac'd from the city. If the water level's increasing 11 inches per hour, there's a bit of time pressure involved...
You would prefer that they are left to drown?
They are taking the most serious patients out by air to Lafayette. The less serious are being moved by boat. I suspect that they're going to start evacuating the SuperDome inhabitants out as soon as they have somewhere else to put them and the means to transport them.
Anyone know if LCACs are being sent?