Five months after the worst hurricane on record made landfall in Puerto Rico, roughly 800,000 people are still without power as desperate islanders wonder whether their plight has been forgotten by the federal government. For the residents who need to power medical devices, this has been particularly traumatic. So the Red Cross has stepped up where the feds have failed by distributing more than 2,300 solar panels with accompanying batteries to the public, which includes 645 veterans.
“If you served in battle and survived, you should not have to suffer because of a poor electrical grid,” said Joseph Colon, a health system specialist in the credentialing department at the Puerto Rico VA hospital.
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