Joaquin Galvan, 82, Maria Trinidad Galvan, 78, and their caregiver lived together in a Brownsville apartment. All three had diabetes. Then there was the heat.
BROWNSVILLE — Something seemed amiss when police officer Oscar Lizarraga arrived at the Conquistador Apartments Maria Ester Singh hadn’t yet paid that month’s rent, and the apartment manager said that was unusual. Singh’s daughter, who lives outside Houston , hadn’t heard from her since April. She asked a cousin in Brownsville to check in on her. Now it was May 8, and no one answered a knock at the door of unit 1012, which was latched from the inside.
James Castillo, a hospice doctor and health authority for Cameron County, said many of his patients with complex health problems prefer to be treated at home. He often has to consider whether home is a safe environment. Does the AC work? Is there a heat wave? Will the electricity stay on to keep medical equipment running? “You have a very large population of medically fragile people,” he said of the Rio Grande Valley. “And in a crisis, fragility shows.
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