Via Hoy Digital: CMD advierte cólera está fuera de control; mortalidad no bajó. [Dominican Medical College warns cholera is out of control; mortality hasn't fallen] Evidently the College and the government are still quarrelling. Excerpt, with my translation:
El Colegio Médico Dominicano (CMD) advirtió ayer que la epidemia de cólera está fuera de control en el país y pidió al Gobierno mayor responsabilidad para enfrentar la pobreza en que viven amplios segmentos de la sociedad.
The Dominican Medical College warned yesterday that the cholera epidemic is out of control in the country and said the government bears major responsibility to confront the poverty in which large segments of society live.
Asimismo, los doctores Senén Caba y Clemente Terrero, presidente y vicepresidente del CMD, pusieron en duda que se haya registrado un descenso en las cifras de mortalidad materno-infantil, como asegura el Ministerio de Salud.
As well, doctors Senén Caba and Clemente Terrero, president and vice-president of the DMC, questioned whether there has been a drop in maternal-child mortality figures, as the Ministry of Health claims.
Caba y Terrero aseguraron que en el país se han registrado más de 15,000 casos de cólera y decenas de defunciones que no han sido debidamente reportados.
Caba and Terrero asserted that over 15,000 cholera cases have been recorded and tens of deaths that have not been properly reported.
The latest report from the Ministry lists 952 confirmed and suspected cholera cases in 2010 (all between weeks 45 and 52) and 7,871 confirmed and suspected cases so far this year. That's an official total of 8,823 cases, with 173 confirmed and suspected deaths...quite a gap between the Ministry's figures and the College's.
