Haiti quake camps encountered Cholera disaster

Haiti quake camps encountered Cholera disaster

Health officials confirm first case of deadly disease in camp for earthquake survivors as toll soars to 600. Health officials in Haiti have confirmed the first case of cholera inone of the earthquake survivors' camps set up in the capital, Port-au-Prince. The developmentheightened fearsthat the disease, which has already claimed hundreds of lives, could spread rapidly among thousands ofpeople living in thecramped camps - the perfect breeding ground for cholera. Al Jazeera's Cath Turner, reporting from Port-au-Prince, said the first confirmed casewas a 26-year-oldwoman. She was then moved to a treatment clinic where she was in isolation again and has now recovered. Her tent, her toilet and the area she was living in was sprayed and she is now back living in the tent and no longer a risk to the area.

"Now, in the last hour, the national laboratory, which is attached to the Haitian ministry for health, rang the camp manager and confirmed that it was cholera. That's the first incident we've heard of a cholera confirmed case. That woman was a group of six suspected cases. That's the first one that has come back positive. We're still waiting for results on the other five of the group."

Since the large urban slum, the treatment can't meet the huge needs. At least600 people have been killed by cholera since the first cases were confirmed about two weeks ago. More than 7,000 others are receiving treatment. Haiti's health ministry said the disease had become a threat to the entire nation of 10 million people.

"Now it is our duty as citizens to help solve this problem, which has gone from being an urgent humanitarian matter and gone to the level of national security," Dr Gabriel Timothee, the ministry's executive director, said during a televised news conference. The disease, spread when infected faecal matter contaminates food or water, is treatable mainly by rehydrating the sick with safe water mixed essentially with salt, sugar and potassium. Antibiotics also are used sometimes.

But decades of failing and often regressing infrastructure - wracked by political upheaval, unbalanced foreign trade, a 1990s embargo and natural disasters - have left millions of Haitians without access to clean water, sanitation or medical care.

"To Haiti's disease, we should assist them in treatment, since we share one world, we should help with each other, and make the world more harmonious. On the other side, except paying attention to Haiti disaster, we all should take care about ourselves, as the weather changed often during this time, please remember to care about your family health problem, avoid catching a cold", the chief executive of Dinodirect Company said. Dinodirect Company is the representative of all the enterprises which assist Haiti to overcome this disaster.

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