Headline : Frances Mayotte struggles to recover as cyclone overwhelms hospitals

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A week after Cyclone Chido ravaged Mayotte, France’s poorest territory, the island remains in crisis

MAMOUDZOU, Mayotte -- A week after its worst cyclone in nearly a century, France’s impoverished Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte is still grappling to count the dead, restore essential services and aid a beleaguered population. Already stretched thin, hospitals are overwhelmed with patients suffering not only from cyclone-related injuries but dehydration, malnutrition and disease.

At Mayotte’s main hospital in the capital, Mamoudzou, doctors face a cascade of crises.

“We lost 40% of patient rooms, about 50 to 60 beds,” said Dr. Roger Serhal, chief of the obstetrics and gynecology department. “There are so many patients coming to the hospital, and we don’t have space to admit them.” As Cyclone Chido battered the archipelago last weekend and 220 kph (136 mph) winds howled around the hospital, Serhal and his team delivered three babies, including by cesarean section.

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