Haiti - Daily MOH cholera reports - Official total 8,531 fatalities; 610 in 2013

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Haiti - Daily MOH cholera reports - Official total 7,025 fatalities

The official tally has not been updated and is now over a month behind. - Ro


Haiti aid group warns of cholera surge
The Associated Press
Posted: 11:52am on Feb 24, 2012; Modified: 11:56am on Feb 24, 2012

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI ? A Haiti aid group warns on the eve of the rainy season that the Caribbean nation will likely see a surge in cholera cases.

Paul Farmer of the Boston-based group Partners in Health writes in an email Friday that Haiti could see a spike like the one that occurred last year.

The number of cholera cases nearly tripled from almost 19,000 last April to more than 50,000 two months later.
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Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/2012/02/24/...#storylink=cpy

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Haiti - Daily MOH cholera reports - Official total 7,025 fatalities

From Crof - I couldn't say it any better;

Haiti: 7,025 cholera deaths as of January 22

On a Saturday afternoon, the MSPP has just posted new cholera statistics on its Documentation page ?just two days' worth. So we are now up to January 22, 41 days behind March 3. For what they're worth, here are the January 22 numbers:

Cases: 97
Hospitalizations: 52
Deaths: 0

Total since the outbreak began in October 2010:

Cases: 526,524
Hospitalizations: 283,925
Deaths: 7,025
So no one died of cholera in Haiti between January 20 (our last update) and January 22. But I have no idea what's been happening since. Nor can I understand why PAHO and other NGOs have put up with this recurrent delay in basic reporting.

http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2012/03/haiti-7o25-cholera-deaths-as-of-january-22.html

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Haiti - Daily MOH cholera reports - Official total 7,025 fatalities

Crof again for linking to Dr. John Carroll's compelling firsthand story of working in a Haitian hospital. Excerpt below, but worth reading in its entirety. It may explain, in part, the lack of official reporting, and implies that official numbers are just the tip of the iceberg.


Ministry of Health Disaster in Haiti


By john carroll


Early today in pediatric clinic in Cite Soleil I had a young mother bring in her 10 month old baby boy. She told me that he started having diarrhea yesterday. He had ten white watery stools yesterday and five similar stools this morning. He is drinking some and nursing some but clinically appeared lethargic and moderately dehydrated.

...
St. Catherine?s is in terrible condition now. It is staffed by a tiny handful of excellent Haitian doctors employed by MSPP, but the hospital has very few medical supplies.

And there is a new problem.

Patients are now charged five Haitian dollars (75 cents US) to have a check up. And if they need to be admitted to St. Catherine's they are charged two hundred Haitian dollars (25 dollars US) for a bed. Doctors Without Borders did not charge.

Patient's families have to provide the sheets for the bed and food for the patient. And family members bathe the patient and empty the bedpan.

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http://www.pjstar.com/haiti_ugc_blog/x1197917670/Ministry-of-Health-Disaster-in-Haiti

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Haiti - Daily MOH cholera reports - Official total 7,025 fatalities

Updated to Feb 12th; http://www.mspp.gouv.ht/site/index.p...d=120&Itemid=1

Total Fatalities: 7,030
Cumulative hospitalizations: 284,943
Cumulative cases: 528,933

Disclaimer: Official counts are likely a fraction of the actual numbers of cases and fatalities.

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Haiti - Daily MOH cholera reports - Official total 7,030 fatalities

Updated to Mar 1st; http://www.mspp.gouv.ht/site/downloa...ars%202012.pdf

Total Fatalities: 7,040
Cumulative hospitalizations: 285,762
Cumulative cases: 530,953

Disclaimer: Official counts are likely a fraction of the actual numbers of cases and fatalities.

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Haiti - Daily MOH cholera reports - Official total 7,040 fatalities

Updated to March 18th; http://www.mspp.gouv.ht/site/index.p...d=120&Itemid=1

Total Fatalities: 7,056
Cumulative hospitalizations: 286,343
Cumulative cases: 531,683

Disclaimer: Official counts are likely a fraction of the actual numbers of cases and fatalities.

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Haiti - Daily MOH cholera reports - Official total 7,056 fatalities

Haiti Haiti-Cholera: The epidemic returns in Artibonite - At least seven dead
Postponement- AlterPresse
Correspondence Mergenat Exalus

Gonaives, March 29, 2012 [AlterPresse] --- As soon as the rainy season began, the department of Artibonite (North) Sprouts of infections and deaths from cholera, according to information gathered by the agency AlterPresse online.

In many rural sections of the upper and lower Artibonite, including Tree 1st communal section of Anse-Rouge, jolting Lacroix sixth communal section of Dessalines and Petite Riviere de l'Artibonite new cases of cholera have been reported.

Five deaths and forty people were reported infected in the past 3 weeks in the locality Savane Ragee, located in the Tree Section 1st communal Anse-Rouge in the upper Artibonite, according to the mayor of this town, Dr. Celareste Honorat and a source close to the health section of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Gonaives.

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http://reliefweb.int/node/486664

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Haiti - Daily MOH cholera reports - Official total 7,056 fatalities

Updated to March 27th; http://www.mspp.gouv.ht/site/index.p...d=120&Itemid=1

Total Fatalities: 7,060
Cumulative hospitalizations: 286,680
Cumulative cases: 532,192

Disclaimer: Official counts are likely a fraction of the actual numbers of cases and fatalities.

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Haiti - Daily MOH cholera reports - Official total 7,060 fatalities

Updated to April 8th; http://www.mspp.gouv.ht/site/index.p...d=120&Itemid=1

Total Fatalities: 7,095
Cumulative hospitalizations: 287,092
Cumulative cases: 532,925

Disclaimer: Official counts are likely a fraction of the actual numbers of cases and fatalities.

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Haiti - Daily MOH cholera reports - Official total 7,095 fatalities

Haiti - Health : Cholera cases have tripled in Port-au-Prince...
30/04/2012 13:15:40

With the arrival of the rainy season in Haiti, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), notes an increase in the number of cholera patients. In less than a month, the number of admissions has more than tripled in the Cholera Treatment Centres (CTC) of MSF in Port-au-Prince and L?og?ne. 134 people in Martissant between April 16 and 23, and nearly 400 in total in the different CTC of MSF in Port-au-Prince and L?og?ne.

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http://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-5532-haiti-health-cholera-cases-have-tripled-in-port-au-prince.html

Updated to April 10th; http://www.mspp.gouv.ht/site/index.p...d=120&Itemid=1

Total Fatalities: 7,091 (down by four from 2 days ago)
Cumulative hospitalizations: 287,656
Cumulative cases: 534,647

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Haiti - Daily MOH cholera reports - Official total 7,091 fatalities

Updated to April 23rd

Total Fatalities: 7,112
Cumulative hospitalizations: 288,839
Cumulative cases: 536,943

Disclaimer: Official counts are likely a fraction of the actual numbers of cases and fatalities.

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Haiti - Daily MOH cholera reports - Official total 7,112 fatalities

Updated to May 5th

Total Fatalities: 7,128
Cumulative hospitalizations: 290,491
Cumulative cases: 540,145

Disclaimer: Official counts are likely a fraction of the actual numbers of cases and fatalities.

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Haiti - Daily MOH cholera reports - Official total 7,128 fatalities

Updated to May 10th

Total Fatalities: 7,145
Cumulative hospitalizations: 291,639
Cumulative cases: 542,543

Disclaimer: Official counts are likely a fraction of the actual numbers of cases and fatalities.

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Haiti - Daily MOH cholera reports - Official total 7,145 fatalities

Updated to May 15th

Total Fatalities: 7,150
Cumulative hospitalizations: 292,418
Cumulative cases: 544,044

http://www.mspp.gouv.ht/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=120&Itemid=1

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Haiti - Daily MOH cholera reports - Official total 7,150 fatalities

Updated to May 20th http://www.mspp.gouv.ht/site/index.p...d=120&Itemid=1

Total Fatalities: 7,182
Cumulative hospitalizations: 293,657
Cumulative cases: 546,449

Disclaimer: Official counts are likely a fraction of the actual numbers of cases and fatalities.