Via ReliefWeb, a report from OCHA: Haiti: Hurricane Sandy - Situation Report No. 04 (as of 09/11/2012). Excerpt from the highlights:
•Heavy rains in the night of 8/9 November, in the Nord, Nord-est and Nippes result in flooding, damage to homes and 10 deaths in Cap Haitien. No information is yet available on the impact of the rains in the Nippes department.
•Damage assessments on impact of Sandy by GoH and humanitarian partners are ongoing but overall figures are being collated.
•Casualties: 54 dead; 21 missing; 20 injured;
•Camps: 7,450 families in 119 camps are affected and require urgent assistance; 5,800 shelters have been destroyed or severely damaged;
•65 camps targeted for immediate response related to health issues;
•9,520 tents have been distributed;
•Homes: 6,059 flooded; 6,274 destroyed, 21,427 damaged;
•33 760 affected families;
•Food security: 1.5 million people affected by food insecurity. Out of this, 450 000 people and 4,000 children under 05 may suffer from severe acute malnutrition;
•Health: Considerable increase in new cholera: 3,593 new cases and 29 dead between 31 October and 8 November, 2012 (WHO).As noted a couple of posts below, MSPP counts 4,141 cholera cases between October 31 and November 7, and 35 deaths in the same period. So I'm not sure where WHO's numbers come from.
The food security problem looks worse and worse. Malnourished people, especially children, are going to be especially vulnerable to a host of illnesses, cholera among them. This could be a very bad winter in Haiti.
