Cholera in Haiti, more than 135 dead

At least 135 deaths from a cholera epidemic, not counting the ten deaths caused by floods in recent days. Nine months after the earthquake that has devastated, causing 250 thousand deaths and 1.5 million homeless, Haiti is experiencing an emergency that seems to have no end. Today, the national health authorities reported the deaths of at least 135 people in several cities across the country following an outbreak of cholera, probably caused by poor drinking water quality. ''We have verified 135 deaths and 1,498 cases of people suffering from dysentery.According to laboratory analysis, it is cholera, "said Claude Suren, president of the doctors in Haiti, in a statement to Agence France Presse. Suren also announced a government statement on the epidemic. "We recorded most of the victims along the Artibonite river which runs through the center and north of the country. This is an epidemic due to water used in homes in those areas," said Dr. Ariel AFP Henry, director of the Ministry of Health of Haiti. "Some people have died in their homes in the Artibonite region and central areas of Haiti and several hundreds are hospitalized and placed under control," other medical sources added. As reported some local correspondents in Port-au-Prince, the majority of deaths occurred in hospitals in St. Marc, about a hundred kilometers from the capital, and other places near the same location. The epidemic of cholera was confirmed in the evening by a source from the Ministry of Health, based on the early results of tests carried out after the deaths. The government convened an urgent meeting with health authorities. Just today, a UN expert, Walter Kaelin, returning from Haiti, complained in a report the profound humanitarian crisis that the country is going through."According to estimates of one million three hundred thousand people, including those who have lost their homes during the earthquake and who has escaped extreme poverty exacerbated by the earthquake are still living in temporary camps in Port-au-Prince area," said Kaelin.

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