Via the Peoria Journal Star, Dr. John Carroll writes: Improvement in Remote Cholera Treatment Center in Haiti. Most of this article is a letter from Father Andre Sylvestre in the parish of Robillard, who had earlier appealed for help. Excerpt:
I want to take this opportunity to thank all the institutions who sent delegations to visit us and who provided supplies to the CTC of Robillard in order to help us take care of the cholera patients. Thanks to your supplies, we are able to take care of our patients now. Thank you very much. Please continue to help us fight the cholera outbreak.
I want to take this same opportunity to send you the following update:
1). My nurses reported that 3 cholera patients started having mental troubles in the CTC of Robillard. According to your knowledge about cholera, is it an usual or normal outcome to have mental troubles when someone suffers from cholera? Do other people working with cholera patients observe that phenomen in their area? I think that it would be interesting to conduct a study about that phenomena.
2) Second, my nurses reported that 6 family members who were with cholera patients at the CTC of Robllard became infected by the cholera outbreak. Is it the result of the mud that exists inside of the tents? Is it because of lack of precautions? I think that it would be interesting that those who are more knowledgeable about cholera help us to prevent other people from getting cholera.
3) For those who may not know it, the clinic of Rose-Merci of Robillard was built by the parishioners of the parish of Saint Rose located in Murfreesboro, Tennessee in collaboration of father Raynold Michel, the former pastor of Robillard. Without that clinic, many people of Robillard would be already dead from several kinds of diseases, particularly from the cholera outbreak. Not only the parishioners of Saint Rose built the clinic Rose-Merci, but they also pay the salary of the doctor, the nurse and the lab technician. I think that they had done enough. We are now urgently asking the assistance of other international institution and of the Haitian government particularly to save the lives of the people of Robillard.
