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Tuesday 30 November 2010

Haiti 'facing cholera treatment shortages'


ALMOST A YEAR AFTER THE HEARTHQUAKE!
WHERE (THE HELL) IS ALL THAT SO PROMISED AID ?
HURRY UP! THERE ARE PEOPLE DYING, YOU KNOW?

Haiti needs at least 1,000 more nurses and 100 doctors to stem deaths from its cholera epidemic, the UN's top humanitarian official has said.


More than 25,000 Haitians are being treated for cholera symptoms

Health workers in Haiti are also having to cope with shortages of almost all necessary equipment, Valerie Amos said during a visit to the country.
The Haitian government says more than 1,500 people have died.
Meanwhile, the World Bank has announced a $10m (£6.3m) emergency grant for Haiti.
In Haiti, the UN humanitarian chief said doctors and nurses across Haiti were overwhelmed and their efforts were being hampered by dire shortages of necessary supplies, from soap
Officials in Haiti say that nearly 28,000 people have been treated in hospital with cholera symptoms and that the epidemic is spreading twice as fast as had  been estimated.

A spokesman for the aid organisation Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) told the BBC the disease was spreading so fast that whenever MSF opened a new treatment centre it immediately filled up with patients.
He said patients in Port-au-Prince were struggling to reach clinics because of traffic gridlock in the city - and the fact that cholera can kill in four hours.
"They're dying in traffic jams," the spokesman told the BBC's Mark Doyle, in the city.

Cholera

  • Intestinal infection caused by bacteria transmitted through contaminated water or food
  • Source of contamination usually faeces of infected people
  • Causes diarrhoea, vomiting, severe dehydration; can kill quickly

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