Katrina Rescue Team Saves Abandoned Embryos Sep 22, 2005 — One of the more dramatic rescue stories from Hurricane Katrina comes from New Orleans East, where doctors and law enforcement officials saved more than 1,000 frozen embryos from a flooded and abandoned hospital. Prior to Hurricane Katrina's landfall, doctors and staff from the Fertility Institute moved embryos from their clinic to the third floor of nearby Lakeland Hospital. The embryos were stored in four large metal canisters weighing about 80 pounds each "Altogether there were about twelve hundred embryos, or about 300 in each canister," said Roman Pyrzak, laboratory director...
