Maya Angelou once penned words that thunder across generations—a defiant proclamation that no matter how deeply we are pressed into the earth, no matter the weight of history or circumstance bearing down upon us, the human spirit possesses an unyielding determination to rise. Beyond poetic optimism, this is the lived reality of survival against impossible odds - odds that faced Jamaica when Hurricane Melissa made landfall on its northern coast with sustained winds exceeding 150 miles per hour. Beyond testing the infrastructure of this resilient island-nation, it exposed the precise fault lines where 21st-century climate realities collide with 20th-century systems, revealing truths about vulnerability, resilience, and the future of healthcare that the world can no longer afford to ignore.

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