由于缺医少药，一些受到感染的患者生命垂危。

Some patients with infections were dying due to a lack of medicines and other supplies.

缺医少药的情况助长了这种疾病的传播。

The absence of adequate medical care furthered the spread of the disease.

当地缺医少药。在这里，数百名村民守着成片青青的甘蔗和木薯田，挖井取水，砍柴生火。

Here, several hundred villagers tend fields of towering green sugar cane and cassava plants, sinking wells for water and chopping wood for fuel.

她终于熬到了把鬼子赶出中国的那一天，可是她的儿子却在那炮火连天的岁月里，由于缺医少药，又极度缺乏营养，因病夭折了。

Finally she insisted until the day when all the Japanese armies were kicked out of China. Nonetheless, her son died of disease without sufficient medicine and nutrition in those days of hardships.