A woman in her 20s, who had gone a week without dialysis, collapsed at a hospital in Jamaica, one of two that are functioning, and where an Israeli delegation is assisting in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa.

“We had to resuscitate her, because she didn’t have access to medicine. We had to ventilate her,” Ofer Merin, a cardiac surgeon and director-general of Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, told JNS. “Thank God, we saved her life.”

Merin spoke to JNS from Jamaica, where he is co-leading a delegation of 30 Israeli medical professionals.

The category five storm, which hit the western part of the country on Oct. 28, has killed 45 people, with 15 missing, the Associated Press reported . It has displaced 30,000 households, per Jamaican officials.

About a third of the country

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