An American disaster medical team is now setting up cooling tents to help some patients. "When they transferred me here ... they rescued me from the dragon's mouth," one patient said.
The government calls them "indirect deaths"
Each deployment has its challenges. In the Arecibo hospital, it was the sweltering sixth-floor cardiac unit.
The temperatures up there were as high as 108 degrees and even higher. "This was a huge stress on the patients who were quite sick. So we have ended up moving them to these tents where the hospital staff is caring for them," says Dr. Jim Fehr, who is on the DMAT team.
"We don't have any air conditioning. We can handle maybe a week, but it's already been two weeks almost."
"Very hot, very hot! I was suffocating. When they transferred me here on Sunday, they rescued me from the dragon's mouth.", 77-year-old retired factory worker named Georgina Gonzales
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