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A former NHS nurse who spent her working life in the UK is among thousands left desperately looking for food and shelter after Hurricane Melissa tore through Jamaica.

Former health worker Mira Morrison, 83, has now “officially run out of food” in the island parish of St. Elizabeth with the storm hampering access for aid and rescue teams, according to her granddaughter Bianca Montiqu.

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