With no power, hospitals struggled to treat
patients after the storm.
Not exact matches
The Turtle Hospital in Marathon doubles as a tourist attraction and sanctuary, where vets care for wounded sea turtles and educators give hourly tours of their 53
patients, including one young turtle named Irma
after the
storm washed it onshore when it was just a hatchling.
Patients whose dialysis centers distributed a «dialysis emergency packet» — which includes information on a
patient's medications, dialysis schedule, comorbid conditions, and geographical / contact information for dialysis centers —
after the
storm were more likely to later have copies of their medical records stored at home.
Throughout the
storm, he and several hundred other hospital employees stayed to look
after a hundred remaining
patients, as well as samples belonging to him and colleagues.
Colleen Snydeman, director of quality and safety for
Patient Care Services at Massachusetts General Hospital, felt the full force of Hurricane Maria three weeks
after September 20, 2017, the day the
storm devastated Puerto Rico.