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Cholera And Deaths

Marjorie Middy - May 19 2012, 8:37 PM

Funding Dries Up Even as Rains Worsen Cholera Deaths
By Jane Regan*
A Cholera Treatment Center in Carrefours run by MSF. For the most serious cases, seen here, patients' lives are saved using IV hydration.

/ Credit:Jude Stanley Roy/IPS
A Cholera Treatment Center in Carrefours run by MSF. For the most serious cases, seen here, patients' lives are saved using IV hydration.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, May 18, 2012 (IPS) - As predicted, the beginning of the rainy season in Haiti brought exponential increases in the numbers of people sickened and killed by cholera.

While the number of new cases in December was about 300 per day nationwide, this week one centre in the capital alone reported receiving 95 cases per day. And the numbers are expected to increase.

As of late April, at least 7,112 people had died and over 536,943 been made ill by the deadly water-borne disease first introduced to Haiti by Nepalese peacekeepers 17 months ago. More than one in 20 Haitians has been infected so far.

"Between the first week of April and the last week of April, the number of new patients increased by three-fold" in the capital, Ga

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