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Hurricane stresses Puerto Rico’s already weak health system

By BEN FOX and DANICA COTO, Associated Press
Published: September 30, 2017, 6:18pm
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A patient waits to be evacuated Saturday from the San Francisco Hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico, after an electrical failure.
A patient waits to be evacuated Saturday from the San Francisco Hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico, after an electrical failure. CARLOS GIUSTI/Associated Press Photo Gallery

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Martin Lopez was shot in the hand last Saturday by two thieves who made off with his precious cans of gas in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. He was rushed to Centro Medico, a trauma center in the Puerto Rican capital where in ordinary times he would be quickly treated by surgeons and sent on his way.

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