Beach Town Desperate for Medical Help
by SHAMARD CHARLES, M.D.
... Residents of Loiza .. are desperately trying to rebuild .. on the northeast coast of Puerto Rico ...
In the storm’s wake, nearly all of Puerto Rico's citizens are urgently trying to find the crucial resources — food, clean water, gas, and medical services — they need to survive. But small towns like Loiza face especially dire circumstances.
"They need everything,” said Dr. John Torres, emergency medicine doctor and NBC News medical correspondent, who has been in Puerto Rico since Friday. “Food, gas, medicine, volunteers, Wi-Fi service to contact their family members ... they need all the basic necessities" ...
"Time is prime. Patience is prime because we don't want to have a disaster within a disaster, which is what happens," said Dr. Charlie Gomez, emergency room medical director at the Puerto Rico Medical Center, the island’s largest public hospital and one of the only medical facilities with power. "You start looting stores and killing people for your basic needs and that's what we don't need" ...
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/puerto-rico-crisis/famed-puerto-rican-beach-town-desperate-medical-help-n806096
