Via AlterPresse.org: Haiti-Matthew / Cholera: 1 424 cases recorded especially in the South, Nippes and Grand Anse. The Google translation:
P-au-P, October 24, 2016 [AlterPresse] --- 1 424 cases of cholera were recorded in the most affected by the hurricane Matthew departments during the first fortnight of October 2016 indicate epidemiological services the Ministry of public health and population (MSPP).
These cases of cholera were recorded mainly in the southern departments of Nippes and Grand Anse (southwest), said the MSPP quoted in a report by the Ministry of the Interior and Territorial Communities (MICT), published on past weekend and transmitted AlterPresse.
The holder of the Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP), Daphney Benoit Delsoin, said 29 people died of cholera in South and Grand Anse, at a press conference Tuesday, October 11 2016.
The cholera situation in Haiti is a huge disaster , deplored the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General's agenda for 2030 and the United Nations Response (UN) to cholera in Haiti, Dr. David Nabarro, in the press statements Tuesday, October 18, 2016, in Port-au-Prince.
A multinational team of experts was deployed in the town of Jeremie and Les Cayes (South) in the idea of controlling the risk of the resurgence of the cholera epidemic in the South, informs the MICT.
