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Dialysis clinic arrives in Puerto Rico a year after Maria
Updated 7:58 am CDT, Thursday, October 4, 2018
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A mobile dialysis unit long sought by patients suffering kidney failure on the tiny Puerto Rican island of Vieques has arrived more than a year after Hurricane Maria.
Gov. Ricardo Rossello said Thursday that the $3 million unit bought by the U.S. government will be set up at a shelter serving as a makeshift emergency clinic.
Some patients had been flying three times a week to the main island of Puerto Rico for dialysis since the Category 4 storm hit last year. But at least five patients have died, with doctors and relatives saying that the constant trips wore them down.
More:
https://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Dialysis-clinic-arrives-in-Puerto-Rico-a-year-13280893.php
