A 21-year-old Manhattan native went to a hospital to be treated for a simple broken ankle — only to end up dead because she was given too many painkillers, according to a shocking lawsuit.

The heartbroken family of tragic Dale Alice Martin said in court documents that Waterbury Hospital in Connecticut disastrously botched the college student’s care April 10, 2025, when she arrived there to be treated for the ankle she fractured while doing farm work — and was given a lethal cocktail of drugs that left her brain-dead, the Hartford Courant reported.

“We didn’t know till after Dale’s death that she was admitted to a bankrupt hospital that was under investigation, where nurses allegedly were buying food for patients, where the level of funding was so constrained that the hospital may not have been able to function properly,” said the dead woman’s father, Westchester County resident Lindsay Martin, to the outlet.

“Dale did not have a choice of where to go,” he said of his daughter, a Bethlehem, Connecticut, resident who attended middle and high school in Pelham in Westechester and was an English and history student at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, according to the Pelham Examiner.

“She was brought to the nearest hospital,” the dad noted.

An autopsy determined that Dale died from cardiac arrest after being given multiple painkillers, according to the suit filed by family lawyer Christopher Mattei.

“Within 14 hours of admission, providers at the hospital had administered so much pain medication that Dale stopped breathing and later died,” the lawsuit said. “No one checked on Dale during this time.

“The same medications that were interfering with Dale’s breathing were also sedating her. Dale could not even call for help as she suffocated. At 7 a.m. on April 10, a Waterbury Hospital nurse finally checked on Dale. It was far too late. Her heart had stopped beating.”

Lindsay Martin said he remembers the dreadful phone call from the hospital when she died.

“I hung up the phone, and I was in shock,” the dad said.

The family had been unaware of the issues with the hospital, which was long owned by California-based Prospect Medical Holdings, a company that filed for bankruptcy in January 2025.

Earlier this year, Hartford HealthCare bought the struggling facility and two others.

“What we expect to find is that this was a hospital that was largely operating on fumes as a result of Prospect dismantling infrastructure within the hospital, reducing staff, training, and finding every way possible to extract value out of the hospital in a way that jeopardized care,” Mattei said.

A rep for the hospital declined to comment because Dale’s death predated its ownership.

The former CEOs of Prospect, David Topper and Von Crockett, did not respond to calls and emails from WNBC-TV News seeking comment on the lawsuit.