Puerto Rico volunteers bring succour to hurricane's hard-hit elderly victims

At Las Teresas retirement home, lack of power for lights and elevators means residents are stranded in the stifling dark and lacking food, water and medicine

When the volunteers reached the second-floor landing at Las Teresas, a retirement community on the outskirts of San Juan, they found an elderly man in wheelchair sitting alone in the stifling dark.

He was a double amputee and was clearly in a bad state. It wasn’t clear how long the man had gone without food, but he sucked ravenously at a nutritional shake he was offered while a doctor started to examine him.

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