Cholera spreads in Haiti’s eight departments

Port-au-Prince, Oct 28 (Prensa Latina) Less than a month after the first cholera case was diagnosed in Haiti, there are now reports of potentially ill and confirmed cases in eight of the 10 departments, with a high incidence among children..

October 28, 2022
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The most recent report by the Ministry of Health (MSPP) indicated that at least 52 Hatians died of the disease, which reemerges at a critical moment when many hospitals are closed due to fuel crisis and medicines are becoming scarce.

To date, 2,243 persons are suspected of having cholera, and almost half of them are children and teen agers under 15 years.

The Board of Directors of Epidemiology, Laboratory, and Research, at the MSPP, summoned anyone with acute, profuse, watery diarrhea, with or without vomiting or dehydration, to go urgently to a healthcare center.

Medical services in hospitals were reduced due to the persistent shortage of hydrocarbons to feed generators, aggravated due to the gangs´blockade in the country’s main oil terminals since mid-September.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned that cholera is almost a death sentence for children with immune systems weakened due to the lack of nutritious foods.

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