'We had to create a human chain to evacuate' - Jamaican hospital rebuilds after hurricane
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Watch: BBC visits battered hospital in Jamaica as recovery underway
As you drive into Falmouth, there's still a moat of dirty looking standing water surrounding the town. On the coastal road, as you slowly push forward in the car, the bow wave breaks and you are hit by the smell of sewage. Passing cars drive slowly so as to not send the spray through the window. This part of the historic town was hit badly by Hurricane Melissa. The regional hospital is on the low-lying road that is the western route into its centre. It was flooded as the water swept across the mangrove and into the facility.
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