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Amid Puerto Rico disaster, hospital ship admitted just 6 patients a day

By The New York Times  
   December 06, 2017

SAN JUAN, P.R. — For an overburdened pediatrician trying to care for a child who was in pain, needed hip surgery, and was displaced from his home in the wake of Hurricane Maria, it seemed a godsend — a modern military hospital ship sent from its berth in Virginia to help with medical care in Puerto Rico.

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