Haitian NGO Responds to Spreading Cholera Crisis
After meeting with Haitian water agency officials and NGOs operating in cholera-affected areas, International Action strategizes a plan to install 50 chlorinators and 8 water tanks and to distribute 900 chlorine tablets to protect locals from the spreading disease.
- (1888PressRelease) October 25, 2010 - SAINT-MARC, HAITI-Today, International Action met with DINEPA water department officials and UN WASH Cluster partners to strategize a coordinated response to the spreading cholera epidemic. To combat this fatal waterborne disease, International Action plans to supply and install 50 chlorinators and 8 water tanks throughout Artibonite Department, the epicenter of the outbreak. Nine hundred chlorine tablets have also been released by the organization to the Haitian water agency and other NGOs addressing the public health crisis.
As of this morning, the casualty toll stands at 194 deaths and 2,364 Haitians hospitalized. If left untreated, cholera can kill within hours.
The Ministry of Health has confirmed that the outbreak has reached the Haitian capital, and leading health officials fear that up to 800,000 Haitians in Port-au-Prince will contract cholera over the next 6 months.
Chlorinators and chlorine tablets are readily available in Haiti to any organization operating in cholera-affected areas. Interested parties should email info ( @ ) haitiwater dot org or call +1 202 dot 488 dot 0735 in the US dot International Action's Haiti Director Dalebrun Esther can be reached at +509 3712 dot 6918 dot
Jeremy Mak
Public Information: +1 202 488.0735
info ( @ ) haitiwater dot org
www.HaitiWater.org
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