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E-mailHealth workers said the number of people confirmed dead from cholera in earthquake-devastated Haiti is almost 200 with more than 2,300 sick.
The ministry of health confirmed 194 deaths and 2,364 cases of cholera, said Imogen Wall, a spokeswoman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Wall said the sick patients and the contagious remains of the dead were insufficiently quarantined.
Cholera was not present in Haiti before the earthquake, which struck in January, but experts have warned that conditions are ripe for disease to strike in areas with limited access to clean water.
The number of cases will continue to grow because Haitians do not have any built-up immunity to cholera, according to Jon Andrus, deputy director of the Pan American Health Organisation's Regional Office for the Americas.
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Sunday Tribune, will you plase ask Goal or Unicef or other Charities in Haiti why there are tons of medicines (that are Cholera medicines) in warehouses in Haiti...& they are not being released to people dying of same because no-one is either not there to sign the paperwork or they are there & won't? This happened as well after the earthquake struck...& now they're at it again. It's a unmerciful bloody shame.