Word: dinarosa
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...Poverelle buried Sister Dinarosa Belleri last week on a hot morning in the plague city of Kikwit. The pallbearers wore green gowns, heavy boots, plastic goggles and white helmets as they pushed a rickety stretcher over the potholes on the road from the main hospital to the Cathedral of St. Francois Xavier. She was the fourth sister to die of the fever, and by this time the nuns had learned to take no chances...
...semblance of social services in a town where the government exists mainly to extort money. The Italian Poverelle (Little Sisters of the Poor) were the only ones to work in the hospital, and so they were the ones to start dying before they knew how to save themselves. Sister Dinarosa, 48, was the chief administrative nurse. She ran the generator, scrounged the medicines and grabbed supplies from any source she could find to keep the hospital functioning. "Anything that is working here," said Belgian doctor Barbara Kerst?ins, "was run by the nuns...
...perforated ulcer. When they opened him up, however, his gut was dissolving. By the time he died two days later of extensive hemorrhaging, Sister Floralba was already running a high fever. She was treated at the hospital, but when her condition worsened, three of her best friends -- Sister Dinarosa, Sister Clarangela Ghilardi, 64, and Sister Danielangela Sorti, 47 -- put her in the back of their four-wheel drive car and drove her 50 miles west to the clinic in the town of Mosango. She was unconscious when they arrived; the sisters stayed at her bedside all night, praying and soothing...
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