Months After Maria, Puerto Rican Patients Travel 12 Hours For Dialysis

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Wed, 04/18/2018 - 1:33am

Hurricane Maria totaled Vieques' hospital, which housed the island's only dialysis clinic. That set off an ongoing crisis for patients for whom the thrice-weekly round trip to a dialysis center on the main island takes at least 12 hours.

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Months After Maria, Puerto Rican Patients Travel 12 Hours For Dialysis

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