Metro

Evac stat as hospitals lose power to heal

Hundreds of patients were scrambled out of hospitals yesterday due to power outages and flooding.

At NYU Langone Medical Center, 300 patients were evacuated — including critically ill newborns — to Mount Sinai and New York Cornell hospitals.

The most seriously ill were still hooked up to oxygen masks and intravenous lines while they were being moved.

The newborns were transferred to New York-Presbyterian’s neonatal medical unit.

“Every baby or adult patient was accompanied by a nurse. That nurse would remain with the patient,” said NYU spokeswoman Lorinda Klein.

At Coney Island Hospital, one nurse prepping emergency-room patients to evacuate was furious that the process was delayed until yesterday morning. The hospital had lost power.

“Why did we not evacuate [earlier]?” the nurse asked.

“The old building has no power since 10 o’clock [Monday night]. This is madness. Look around — no one knows where to go or what to do.”

Another hospital staffer explained, “We’re only capable of triage at this point.

“We’re still assessing facility damage and there is no estimate of when we’ll have power.”

Local residents near NYU Langone who were experiencing building blackouts were bringing their cellphones to the hospital to charge them, assuming that there would be backup generators there. But the bacups had failed.

Anyone arriving for outpatient treatment was told by hospital security that the facility was closed.

There were 19 adult patients who were taken to Memorial Sloan-Kettering.

“Set aside 2 postop surgical units to house several patients evac from NYU Langone due to power failure,” the hospital tweeted.

Meanwhile, exhausted first responders lashed out at stranded victims they had rescued for having not obeyed evacuation warnings.

One female cop on Staten Island even refused to accept a thank-you from a victim.

“Don’t thank me. Our lives are in danger. You all should have evacuated like you were told,” she scolded.

FDNY Deputy Chief Pete Leicht was trying to battle a storefront fire at Midland and Patterson avenues on Staten Island.

“We’re stretched thin,” he said. “If people would’ve listened to the evacuations, it wouldn’t be this bad. We’re taxed to the limit.”

Cops used inflatable rafts and skiffs to get to residents trapped by the high waters.

“We’re making dozens of live rescues here. It’s really bad,” said one Emergency Service Unit cop in a rescue boat on Hunter Ave and Father Capodanno Boulevard on the Island.