There was no shortage of patients; in its first two weeks, Mohit estimated that the clinic helped hundreds of people. But on the day I visited, worries were mounting about the people still stuck in the high-rises. As volunteers went door-to-door distributing supplies in the darkened projects, flashlights strapped to their foreheads, they were finding alarming numbers of sick people. Cancer and HIV/AIDS meds had run out, oxygen tanks were empty, diabetics were out of insulin, and addicts were in withdrawal. Some people were too sick to brave the dark stairwells and multiple flights of stairs to
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