There was no doubt in my mind that this would happen … #HumanitarianCrisis … and who cares??
This 18 April 2018 video is called Puerto Rican patients must travel 12 hours for dialysis.
By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, Kaiser Health News:
Puerto Rico’s Slow-Going Recovery Means New Hardship For Dialysis Patients
Sunday, April 22, 2018
VIEQUES, Puerto Rico — As the cry of a rooster heralded the dawn, Joe Garcia, 41, pulled a vial of insulin from the fridge. He filled a syringe and wrapped it in aluminum foil in preparation for the long day ahead.
“I tell him that from here to there, that’ll spoil”, said his mother, Martina Collazo de Jesus, 63, watching the preparations under the fluorescent bulb lighting the family kitchen.
It is a gamble Garcia, who has both diabetes and kidney failure, has taken since Hurricane Maria slammed this Puerto Rican island just east of the main island. More than six months after the storm, Garcia and 13 other Vieques…
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