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Cuban Doctors Essential to Haiti Cholera Fight

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http://www.escambray.cu/Eng/cuba/cubahaiti101210824

Cuban Doctors Essential to Haiti Cholera Fight

by PL ? last modified Dec 10, 2010 07:28 PM
Contributors: photo taken from PL
? filed under: CUBA-HAITI, CUBAN HEALTH COOPERATION, CUBAN HEALTH SYSTEM
The Cuban medical team in Haiti is working relentlessly to prevent the further spread of cholera in the country, amid reiterated calls for help from the UN.


The Cuban brigade has assisted up to 40 percent of cholera patients, which exceed 93,000.:tiphat:

As many as 1,200 Cuban doctors, nurses, and logistical personnel are working in health campaigns and assisting infected people in Haiti in a bid to contain the epidemic, which has killed over 2,120 people since October.


In the sites where Cuban medical team members are working, the cholera death rate does not exceed one percent....more at the link.
 
Re: Cuban Doctors Essential to Haiti Cholera Fight

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6B24G620101203
<blockquote>By Pascal Fletcher Fri Dec 3, 2010 5:33pm GMT Reuters
<h4>Cuban medics a big force on Haiti cholera frontline</h4>
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - They don't send out press releases, don't have public information officers....

But when the United Nations appeals for more doctors and nurses to combat the deadly disease that is killing dozens by the day, it is to Cuba's medical brigade that U.N. officials are likely to turn to first.

...Cubans are a major frontline force in the multinational response to the raging epidemic, which has killed at least 2,000 people and probably more, since mid-October in the impoverished country...
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