Jennifer Purga tearfully pumped air into her critically ill husband's lungs, willing his sepsis-ravaged body to respond as he lay in a roofless hospital, with no water or power.

The Divine Word Hospital in the typhoon-wrecked Philippine city of Tacloban was the vision of a world without redemption Friday, as exhausted hospital staff struggled to provide basic care to patients—some with horrific injuries.

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