Cenk Uygur
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Relief Workers Take Puerto Rican Spa Day While Island Suffers
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October 14, 2017
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October 14, 2017
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1,749
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3:37Now PlayingGovernment employees decided to take a minivacation in the middle of a disaster relief effort. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, and Mark Thompson, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. Join TYT
"A senior doctor helping assist those in need in Puerto Rico, who has been on humanitarian missions in at least 10 countries, quit her job and alleged that medical workers treated themselves to a "spa day" on the taxpayer dime as medical workers received manicures and pedicures from residents of the U.S. territory.
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow broke the story and reported the doctor had said that the response in Puerto Rico "is being run in a way she has never seen in her 20 years of federal disaster response experience.”
The doctor alleged that medical workers, while receiving pay, had "used the triage tents that are supposed to be for medical care and instead they brought in local Puerto Rican residents to give the medical workers cut-rate manicures and pedicures," Maddow said.”*
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