Haiti’s Ministry of Public Health and Population reported Tuesday that there have been 13,000 cholera infections and 276 deaths since last October this year, when the disease was recorded in vulnerable areas of Port-au-Prince.
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The latest report shows 12,987 people are suspected of carrying the disease and 1,153 have been confirmed by diagnostic tests, most of them in the capital, according to health officials.
They also noted that 11,089 have been hospitalized since October, while the organization MSF warned its treatment centers were being overwhelmed by the influx of patients.
With or without their parents, more and more children in Latin America and the Caribbean are embarking on a continent-wide journey in search of a better and safer life. @uniceflac warns that 16.5 million children in the region will need humanitarian assistance in 2023.
— UNICEF Latin America (@uniceflac)
December 5, 2022
With that in mind, the country’s government and the United Nations (UN) requested $145 million in mid-November to support the outbreak response and help 1.4 million people living in vulnerable areas.
The international organization warned that women, children, the elderly and the disabled were particularly hard hit by the spread of the disease and reiterated that the funds raised would help address other urgent humanitarian needs as well as deeper structural problems.
It’s worth noting that no cholera cases have been diagnosed in the Caribbean country since 2019, after a devastating outbreak killed about 10,000 people in the 2010s.