Cuba Bolsters Anti-Cholera Actions in Haiti

Cuba Bolsters Anti-Cholera Actions in HaitiPort-au-Prince, Dec 15. -The opening of a new Cholera Treatment Center (CTC) is one of the steps taken by the Cuban Medical Mission to halt the epidemic that is ravaging Haiti.

The new center is located in the densely-populated hillside neighborhood of Carrefour in the capital, where more than 400,000 people live.

Witht the Carrefour center, a total of nine CTCs have been set up by Cuban personnel in several Haitian provinces.

The others are operating in Mirebalais, Hinche, Saut-d'Eau, L'Estere, Plateau, Plaine du Nord, Belladere and Plaissance, and the goal of the Cuban Medical Mission is to set up 20 CTCs.

According to Haitian authorities, Cuba is the most country that has made the most outstanding cooperative efforts in the fight to control the cholera epidemic that has taken more than 2,192 lives since Oct. 20.

Cuban health personnel have attended at least 40 percent of cholera patients, and have achieved a mortality rate of less than one percent.

Latin American, Caribbean and European nations are collaborating with medical and health materials and specialists for this impoverished nation.

Several Caribbean nations close to Haiti have prepared plans to prevent the further spread of the outbreak which has already hit the Dominican Republic, where 32 cases have been confirmed (Prensa Latina)