Cholera has swept Haiti in the last few years and the United
Nations’ effort to raise money needed is not enough. Clean water supply is short
and clinics have run short of oral rehydration salts to treat the diarrhea.
When families run out of water purification tablets, they drink from polluted
source, most likely streams nearby. For the last three years in a row Haiti has
reported the most cases of cholera. The United Nations has a plan to raise 5 million
for vaccination purposes and another 2 billion to betterment the water
sanitation infrastructure. Over 8000 people had died in Haiti since the 2010 cholera
outbreak but new infections have declined. Also the number of cholera treatment
center has shrunk from 120 to 40 in the country. This outbreak even spread to
neighboring country and cases numbers are expected to reach 40000 as the
raining season starts.
This is not a problem of epidemic, but equality and human
rights. Although main causes of this cholera breakout is the unsanitary water
conditions in Haiti and the weak public health and government attempts that left the poor with little choice but to
drink whatever available ,humans around the world and most specifically developed
countries, represented by the United Nations, are responsible for this. The
inhumane conditions in Haiti and the facts that the cost to prevent cholera and
to prevent it is not costly, proves that what is happening is lack of support
and attempts. Experts even say that no one should be dying of cholera. Because less
than 2/3 of the population have access to cholera, poor hygienic practices and
clinic are very far, number of death are high , the children have very low
immunity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/world/americas/un-struggles-to-stem-haiti-cholera-epidemic.html?hpw&rref=health&_r=0
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