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Texas hospitals overwhelmed as cold weather cuts water and power supplies
US doctor Natasha Kathuria has practised medicine in 11 countries, worked through the 2014 “Snowmageddon” storm that brought Atlanta to a halt, and survived the past year’s COVID-19 pandemic crush.
Key points:
- Half of Texas’s population is being ordered to boil water to ensure it is safe for consumption
- Many hospital workers have remained at work because there is no heat or water at home
- Crowded hospitals are facing shortages of water, posing risks for patients including those on dialysis
But she and some other doctors in Texas saying they have never experienced a more harrowing week than this one.
Record-setting cold weather has cut water and energy supplies to hospitals across a wide swath of Texas.
But on Friday, even as electricity and…
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