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Article snippet: SAN JUAN, P.R. — As Hurricane Maria pummeled Puerto Rico, María Martínez Espada, 86, slipped because of a water leak in her apartment and broke her hip. Almost a week later, doctors at Hospital del Maestro have not been able to operate because of a shortage of medical supplies. “The pain is a horrible thing,” Ms. Martínez said from her sweltering third-floor bed at the hospital, where the medical director, Veronica Rodriguez, said, “At 3 p.m. it gets so hot that it’s almost impossible to handle.” For the sick and the elderly, heat can be deadly. Without sufficient power, X-ray machines, CT scans, and machines for cardiac catheterization do not function, and generators are not powerful enough to make them work. Only one in five operating rooms is functioning. Diesel is hard to find. And with a shortage of fresh water, another concern looms: a possible public health crisis because of unsanitary conditions. In Washington, officials scrambled to show their commitment to the hurricane-battered island as Democrats, and some Republicans, pressed them to do more. President Trump announced that he would visit Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands next Tuesday to reassure residents that the federal government was mobilizing to help rebuild. “Both have been devastated — and I mean absolutely devastated — by Hurricane Maria,” he said. “And we’re doing everything in our power to help the hard-hit people of both places.” One step Mr. Trump took on Tuesday was to wai... Link to the full article to read more