Haitians Still Threatened by Inadequate Cholera Response

by Gary Kopycinski on October 20, 2011

Gary Kopycinski Author

More in Haiti and Chile Earthquakes:

Clean Water, Sanitation and Food Remain Relief Priorities in Haiti – UN Official October 4, 2011
Citing Precarious Conditions, UN Urges Governments Not to Return Haitians June 21, 2011
Report from U.N. Human Rights Expert Expresses Grave Concern over Deportations to Haiti June 16, 2011

PORT-AU-PRINCE–(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2011—One year since the onset of the cholera epidemic in Haiti, people all over the country are still threatened by the deadly disease, and healthcare services and measures to prevent its spread remain inadequate, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today.

Since the first cases of cholera were identified in October 2010, more than 465,000 Haitians have fallen ill and more than 6,500 people have died, according…