The Government won’t talk about it, but Doctors have reported that about 3 to 4 patients die daily in hospitals and health centers due to lack of service or electricity. Many of the centers where patients take their therapies do not have water and others have no power or fuel for their generators. In other cases, many of the patients have waited five to six days without taking their therapies for not having transportation and in other cases because the roads are blocked or collapsed, preventing patients from reaching their health centers.
At the moment, 14 days after Hurricane María, 69 dialysis patients who received initial treatment after the hurricane are Dead. Out of these 69 deaths 8 were reported yesterday in a period of only 48 hours in several Treatment Centers in the West side of the island.
At this date, the state government has not offered an accurate death toll resulting directly from the hurricane.
