Cuban doctors Eugenia Moreda, right, and Pedro Ung begin emergency surgery on Rosemonde Jeanty, a typhoid patient from Boucan Carre. After being prepped for surgery and sedated, Dr. Ung prepared to cut into her abdomen - except the hospital lost power before he could start the cut. The operating room staff calmly stood in the dark, waiting for the power to come online.

[Times photo: Daniel Wallace]