Haiti’s Ministry of Public Health has confirmed that cholera has claimed the lives of 452 people since its outbreak three months ago in the Caribbean country; a health crisis that adds to the back of a country in a state of food emergency and ravaged by crime.
According to the latest official balance published late Saturday by Haiti Libre, Haitian health authorities have confirmed a total of 1,570 cases while they are trying to verify another 22,575 probable cases. The number of hospitalized patients with symptoms has risen to 18,360 since the declaration of the first case on October 3, 2021. The average age of those admitted to hospital is 20 years and the incidence is particularly notable among children between 1 and 9 years of age, who account for some 7,200 probable cases.
To this must be added the hunger crisis. In this regard, the Prime Minister, Ariel Henry, has announced that in the coming days the country will begin to receive financial support from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to respond to the food emergency.
According to the leader of the Executive, Haiti is one of the first countries to benefit from this program -called Food Shock Window- and will allow it to implement «a series of social protection actions», he detailed in a message via Twitter.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
