![]() ![]() family is a prominent family, well known in Vieques, a family of fishermen. She went into cardiac and respiratory arrest. If there had been a helicopter and vehicle to transport her promptly to a decent hospital, she could have received at least standard care for the condition she was in.ĬHAKRABARTI: But no helicopter was available, so the family tried to take Jaidelíz to San Juan by plane.īACKIEL: They got her onto a plane. And transportation to the nearest real hospital was at least 1.5 to 2 hours away.īy the transportation arrangements they had. It didn't have the proper equipment to intubate pediatric clients. And her mother gave her some Advil, and she started to convulse.ĬHAKRABARTI: Jaidelíz's mother rushed her daughter to the car, and drove to the closest medical care on Vieques, which three years after Hurricane Maria was still that temporary tent-based emergency refuge center.īACKIEL: It had no mechanical breathing equipment. Her mother went to check on her at about 4:00 a.m., and she seemed okay.Īnd at around 6:00 a.m., she went into her mother's room and said she had a terrible, terrible headache. That was Saturday.ĬHAKRABARTI: So the family took the ferry back to Vieques.īACKIEL: She was dancing and playing on Saturday night. She and her brother, they were checked out by a pediatric hospital in San Juan where her older sister was attending some courses.Īnd, you know, they didn't find anything serious. Linda Backiel is both friends with the Ventura family and their attorney.Īnd she says, Jaidelíz Moreno Ventura was sick enough that the family decided to make the long trip from Vieques to the hospital in San Juan.īACKIEL: She had had a sort of flu sort of condition. Well, on January 11th, 2020, 13-year-old Jaidelíz Moreno Ventura wasn't feeling very well. But to get comprehensive hospital care, people had to go to the main island via ferry or plane, a trip that could take up to 2 hours. Medical workers set up an emergency refuge center with tents and trailers. Hurricane Maria destroyed the Vieques hospital. I mean, it was just devastating.ĬHAKRABARTI: Linda Backiel is an attorney who lives in San Juan and represents a family that lives in Vieques. LINDA BACKIEL: All of Vieques was devastated by Maria. Vieques, a small island off Puerto Rico's east coast, was leveled. September 20th, 2017, the first category four hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in almost a century. ![]() And that category four storm was Hurricane Maria. Many of these homes not built to withstand any hurricane, let alone a category four. ![]() The emergency management director saying the entire island is destroyed. And now they're dealing with this: flooding in every direction. It was hit very hard, a lot of destruction to homes, downed trees and power lines, as well. NEWS MONTAGE: Tonight, more than 3 million in Puerto Rico are in the dark, potentially without power for 4 to 6 months. Transcript: Highlights From The Show's Open The family blames the government of Puerto Rico for her death for failing to build a local hospital after it was destroyed during Hurricane Maria in 2017.Ĭhris Currie, director for emergency management and national preparedness issues in the Government Accountability Office. Linda Backiel, the lawyer of the family of 13-year-old Jaidelíz Moreno Ventura who died in January 2020 while being transported to the hospital. Co-author of Puerto Rico Recovery Task Force. ( Also Featured ( Lamba-Nieves, research director at the Center for a New Economy (CNE) - a nonpartisan think tank focused on Puerto Rico’s economy. GuestsĪdi Martinez-Roman, director of operations at the University of Puerto Rico’s Resiliency Law Center that focuses on community led disaster recovery and rebuilding processes and projects. Today, On Point: Who and what is standing in the way of Puerto Rico's long-term recovery. "At some point we have to sit back and look at these cascading disasters and ask ourselves, do we need to devise another action plan for yet another disaster, or do we need to really rethink the reconstruction process from the ground up." If so little rebuilding is actually taking place, are the reconstruction efforts really working? However, only 407 million - that's 2% - has actually been spent." "In Puerto Rico, FEMA has obligated over $21 billion for public assistance projects. This, as it's still trying to recover from Hurricane Maria, which devastated the island more than 5 years ago. Puerto Rico is trying to recover from Hurricane Fiona, which struck last month. ![]() Sign up for the On Point newsletter here. ![]()
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