What's going on in Puerto Rico? No water, no electricity, no bread...

All over Puerto Rico, no electricity. Food is scarce. There's not enough water to drink, let alone washing. CNN's coverage brings life to a hurricane-hit island while the Trump administration is accused of not helping enough...

A week after Hurricane Maria destroyed Puerto Rico as a fourth-class storm, the situation is no better. In many ways, it's getting worse. Hospitals, who were to care for people, are actually unable to provide services.

At Canovana Medical Center, doctors are facing a lack of supplies. Dr. Norbert Seda said that they were running out of fuel for the generator and had only two or three days of supplies left.

As the inhabitants were prepared for the arrival of the storm, and only a few were mercifully killed by the storm, the need for medical services is increasing. “We've seen a lot of trauma”, Seda said. “We need drugs, antibiotics, tetanosis doses, hypertension drugs”.

He has not yet faced people who die because of lack of energy and supplies, but he thinks that could come.

“When there is water shortages and sewer problems, it will become evident. We expect something like this to happen”.

Lack of fuel is the main problem in San Jorge Children Hospital in San Juan, according to its executive director, Domingo Cruz Vivaldi. We are facing a crisis now. The hospital needs oil every day - at least 2,000 gallons [2,000 L] a day. Yesterday, we ran out of oil at 6 p.m. and we were out of electricity at the hospital between 6 and 2 p.m. Eight hours without power”. Without electricity, life - saving machines such as ventilators must work on the power supply for emergency cases.

Fear of the future is spreading throughout Puerto Rico.

Woe is following every 3 million Americans there. Mayor of San Juan Carmen. Yulin Cruz sees a growing need for help for all desperate people whose numbers are growing.

We are finding patients with dialis that have not been able to contact their providers. We have to transport them in conditions near death”, the mayor said. “We're finding people whose oxygen reserves are running out, because our little generators now have no oil”.

Most alarming are SOS messages, she said, “ates that say: Can anybody hear me? ) Those who say “I no longer have food, or I'm on my way”.

Cruz and her teams are on the road trying to find the most in need. But in the mountains south of its city, aid is less likely to come. War vet, Miguel Olivera, has less than two days of insulin supplies that save his life. But even this amount can be ruined in its nonsalvated refrigerator.

His city mayor Javier Garcia believes the aid will come from the continent and the federal government. The question is when? And will Olivera and the others be too late?

The main airport in San Juan is broken, it barely works. Those in there look forward to saving the crowded and air - conditioned terminal. On Tuesday, only 10 flights were scheduled.

Check tables were filled with people waiting on the line, hoping for a flight from the island. Refreshors worked but did not refresh anyone. Hopeful travelers sat on the chairs in rows, while others lay nearby, using their luggage as a pillow. A mother would swing the cart forward and back into an attempt to get her baby to sleep.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that food and water were being sent to Puerto Rico and added that he would visit the island next week.

Until help arrives, Garcia and his companions in Aguas Buenas are returning to the oldest way of life; they plow coconuts to provide food and gather water from mountain streams. But this could last for a little while. 21st century aid is necessary for many, like Miguel Olivera, who rely on drugs. And the situation can easily deteriorate, the disease that carries mosquitoes like Zika and the dengu fever are very real fears here. A large electric tower that crashed in Agus Buena needs to be deployed by helicopter. This is a very clear problem. But the power grid in Puerto Rico has been a real mess even before the storm, so it will take months, months, for energy to return to the entire island.

The generators are now essential and essential to them is gasoline. Gas stations around San Juan have some kind of supply, but demand is huge. Long queues of vehicles line up next to pumps, and men with red gas plastic cans wait up to 6 hours, hoping to obtain some valuable gallons. Similar lines grow outside every open grocery store and wherever there is ice. It's hot. And there's moisture. It is predicted to rain later this week, but it is not expected to refresh the country sufficiently. Puerto Rico's leaders and many of its men say they are strong people, they will survive, they will rebuild. . . But the signs of despair have begun to appear.

You can see from the air people along the highways, contacting, seeking signals for their phones. Floods, storm debris, and a growing lack of power mean that a quick telephone conversation may be their only link to the rest of the island for some time.

The same obvious war in Quebradillas is taking place throughout Puerto Rico. The city of Utuado suffered several deaths during the storm and saw homes destroyed. Rosario Heredia lost her house. She's diabetic and she just had surgery. She's still there, hoping for help, by someone. But so far no one has come.

Now this 30,000-strong community is addressing a tube, bringing water from a mountainous spring along the highway, to provide needed water.

Harry Torres said that water is all they have for cleaning and consumption until help comes. He and his fellow citizens are only “trying to survive”. “We are desperate”, Torres said.

The situation is terrible for those who cannot even get to that running water. The storm brought the slides here, leaving them unable to get to the highway because of blocked roads or gas shortages. Lydia Rivera has two cars, but there's no gas and so it can't go up to that tube to get water. Now she is trying to keep her two grandchildren alive with a ration of salty cookies and survive by means of rainwater. In Yauco, now a remote city, all roads are blocked. The only way for him is to climb a hill and over many ruined trees. Coffee producers, Gaspar Rodriguez and Doris Veles, have lost everything they worked for. But the biggest concern now is how they will survive. They are in desperate need of food. Most of what they've broken up.

In Yabucoa, which received a direct blow, there is no power and residents say they have also been without clean water for days. Low food in the city is separating between neighbors.

Each part of Puerto Rico received a blow. The air looks brown, no longer the characteristic green of the tropical island.

Nothing is normal and it is not easy to predict when normality will return, from opening schools to hospitals that should be able to care for the sick. Millions do not know when they will be able to draw water from their boots or by simple action to have warm or cold air.

San Juan resident Sebastian Pérez told CNN how he survived without fresh water and energy. His fridge is useless to keep something cold and he hasn't driven his car since the storm, wanting to save gas for emergencies. The food issue is becoming somewhat scary,” he said. “I'm trying to use as little as possible.” “Because you don't know when the situation will improve.