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Doctors unite to deliver supplies to Puerto Rico
After Hurricane Harvey flooded her city of Houston in August, Jennifer McQuade planned to donate socks. Instead, surprised by the lack of medical care at a nearby shelter, McQuade, an oncologist, became the unofficial leader of a group of physicians and mothers...
Rehabilitation at La Milagrosa Home is very uphill
Hurrican Marie blew up the roof at La Milagrosa home in Arecibo, which cares for girls victims of negligence and mistreatment, for which her 14 female residents had to be housed in one of the institution's halls. "The home was greatly affected. There are some areas...
They request help for “The House of All” in Juncos
JUNCOS. In the midst of the crisis that Puerto Rico is experiencing after the impact of Hurricane Maria, other stories of need are being woven simultaneously, such as the one facing "La Casa de Todos", a home that welcomes battered children and surviving mothers of...
A Doctor’s Abandoned Journey Into Isolated Puerto Rico
CAONILLAS, Utuado, P.R. — Dr. Lissette Gutierrez is normally not one to curse. But when the S.U.V. she was traveling in hit a rut and bounced wildly on a mud road carved into a mountainside — a steep decline inches to her right, the pounding rain all around — an...
In hurricane’s wake, a medical crisis plagues Puerto Rico
Since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, Dr. Janice Santos, assistant professor of surgery and a physician with Brown Urology, has been working to help provide relief where an urgent medical crisis continues. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — In the wake of...
Reid health surgeon collecting donations ahead of medical mission trip to Puerto Rico
RICHMOND, Ind. – It’s been nearly two weeks Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico, directly or indirectly killing 18 people and leaving millions stranded without power. President Donald Trump visited today for the first time to check in on the relief efforts, which...