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Gabriela Galvin

Amid major outage, health workers in Spain and Portugal adapted to provide urgent care without power

When Dr Tiago Villanueva arrived at his family medicine clinic in Lisbon on Monday afternoon, it was like a ghost town. The patients had all been sent home, and health workers were bracing for a crisis of unknown duration – almost like the COVID-19 pandemic.

But this time, there was no mobile phone service, no Internet, and no power.

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