Hospitals in Haiti have experienced overcrowding because the Cholera epidemic has continued to spread. Of of November 12 more then 917 people have died from this disease and at least 14,600 people have been hospitalized in Haiti. Aid workers who are helping this situation in Haiti fear that the increase in people with this disease, the more overwhelmed Haiti's health care facilities will be. Hospital manager, Francoise Gyrone told The Associated Press, "In this hospital, because of space constraints, we have to make sure that people can be sent to another place where we can provide better care very fast, so that we can still receive patients."
To help this situation Haitian President Rene Preval had brought a number of speakers in a sunday meeting to strive for citizens to practice good hygiene and proper cooking methods. But this teaching might not help all citizens because many are still homeless and unable to access clean water or reliable sanitation because of the earthquake.
When people went around trying to teach Haitians about hygiene many of them say, "Let me have soap, I can't afford it."
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/11/14/aid-workers-fear-cholera-epidemic-overwhelm-haitian-hospitals/
From what I read today, I get the sense that cholera has now spread over the entire country. I wonder how you can possibly eradicate a problem that is so huge. Poverty--much of it caused by the recent earthquake--must be a major hurdle to overcome.
ReplyDeleteThis is really sad. I feel bad for people in this country that don't have the resources to get help from these situations.
ReplyDeleteIt seems strange to me that the president will spend the governments money to teach the the public but is not providing all of them soap or actual materials that they need to keep clean.
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