42-year-old dialysis patient Sandra Medina waits inside a plane at the airport in Vieques, Puerto Rico. “It’s an injustice to have us like this” — flying back and forth for treatment — “when they can put a clinic here,” Medina said. Doctors amputated half her leg after an infection worsened months ago. A nervous flyer, she confided that sometimes she loses hope. “We go through a lot,” she said.

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