Alarm Bell’s In Haiti As Cholera Breaks Out
Haiti Suffers Another Sizeable Blow With Cholera Outbreak
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Whilst Doctors work around the clock to catch up on the first intake, more and more people are being shipped into the St Nicholas Hospital with symptoms of the disease.
What is worrying medical staff more than anything is that if this becomes an epidemic, they won’t have the people to cope, let alone the supplies to treat those who could possibly fight it.
So far, this water based disease has taken the lives of over 150 people, with nearly 2000 more suffering with the sickness.
Concerned about the possible outbreak spreading across the country, medical staff, doctors and nurses are crying out for more help to try and keep the disease contained within a small area.
Cholera, which is a bacterial based disease, can be spread in many ways, of which water and poor hygiene are the top two. Even going back to when the terrible earthquake happened in January, many were predicting that there was a high chance of an outbreak due to sanitary conditions across the country.
During a telephone based press call yesterday, Dr. Joia Makherjee, the chief medical officer of Boston based Partners in Heath said: “It was a very rapid, dehydrating illness, so we suspected it might be cholera and rapidly started to look for other cases in the community.’’
But they didn’t have to wait long before they realized what they were dealing with due to the numbers of admissions to the 200 bed hospital in St. Marc. But now that numbers are increasing at such a rapid rate, people are beginning to spill out into courtyards within the hospital grounds.
No doubt this will target yet another call out to the worlds medical community for help, with another plea for extra finance to build make shift medical centres to cope with the potential flood of sick people being carried to the hospital doors.
So don’t sit and think this is not in your back yard so doesn’t matter, because it does! Simply go to your nearest donation centre, or directly to the Ahiti Appeal website where you can donate to this much deserved situation.
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