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3 things I learned from delivering medical aid to a remote part of Puerto Rico

  • Written by Asa Oxner Myers, Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, University of South Florida
imageThe author, distributing medications at a shelter in Villalba, Puerto RicoElimarys Perez-Colon, CC BY-SA

I belong to a group called Doctors for Puerto Rico.

We have been dispatching medicine and small teams of medical staff to the island, in coordination with local health authorities since two-and-a-half weeks after Hurricane Maria. When we started,...

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