Cholera riding in Haiti by Milota Sidorova

An earthquake that hit Haiti in January wasn't the worst that could happen. In fact it was just an wide-open gate to numerous set backs and a political and social destabilization of the country. Now, more than one million of people who lost their homes due the earthquake went out of focus of major world media and survived a hurricane season. All in silence, all with the bitterness of a nearing death taking face of cholera and increasing criminality. Cholera has now taken over the country that is desperately lacking doctors, medical staff volunteers and supplies. So far the death toll counted about 1,900 people but more are about to be counted. According to Haitian Health Mi! nistry there was more than 80,000 cholera cases since late October but the Pan-American Health Organization projected about 650,000 people in next half a year. But it may not be the final number – for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon the quotes may double because the countryside is lacking any kind of statistic data. And it is the countryside that is affected the most – there is hardly a public transport and people have to walk several hours to reach the closest hospital or a medical station. But this is not the salvation, since clinics are overloaded with people – sometimes offering only two or three doctors on about a thousand of patients. Many people are so exhausted that they are not risking the long walk and they die. Even if cholera doesn't have a high mortality rate moving somewhere 1.5 percent, the situation can worsen if an urgent medical aid is not provided. So virtually one can say that the border between life and death are two infusions or gl! asses of nutrition liquids. So small if you imagine two small ! cups of liquids and then this enormous amount of human shelters seeking for it. So small, so distant and if one doesn't reach it there is no future except of painful, silent death.

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