In Puerto Rico, Lives Depend on Volunteer Doctors and Diesel Generators

In Puerto Rico, Lives Depend on Volunteer Doctors and Diesel Generators
Doctors review prescriptions of patients in a elderly care facility in Orocovis, Puerto Rico on October 3, 2017. Reuters/Robin Respaut
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OROCOVIS, Puerto Rico—At a community center in Orocovis, an isolated agricultural town of 23,000 in the mountains of central Puerto Rico, six oxygen-dependent patients drew breath with the help of the diesel generator powering their equipment.

Then the generator sputtered as if it might die.