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HAITI HEALTH CLUSTER BULLETIN #14 – PAGE 3 1/14/11:
French Red Cross
The French Red Cross continues its work in the installation and reinforcement of CTC and CTU (material, staff, and trainings). The FRC has developed an “emergency reactive approach”, consisting of the installation of an emergency CTU, temporary if needed, at the newly identified outbreak location in order to provide a quick response close to populations and to prevent the propagation of the epidemic. Three of these “mobile CTUs” have been installed in hard-to reach areas (two of them by helicopter).
Some 21 CTUs were installed by the FRC and 19 are operational (in Port au Prince, Delmas, Croix-des-Bouquets, Petion Ville, Kenskoff and Petit Goave). Among other activities, specific zones have been habilitated to receive sick people, and staff has been trained and material has been delivered. The CTU of Chapi in Cité Soleil, is open 24/7. The arrival of 10 Haitian Red Cross volunteers has increased the number of disinfection agents at this centre. More than 2,000 cholera cases have been treated in the FRC’s CTUs. In Port-au-Prince, six oral rehydration posts are installed and operational in FRC camps.
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22/10/2010
Haiti: mobilized vis-a-vis the cholera epidemic
Vis-a-vis the cholera epidemic which has prevailed for a few days in the area of Artibonite, the French Red Cross occupied its teams to come to assistance of the victims.
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At once, the team of the French Red Cross (CRF) based in Port-au-Prince, joined together an crisis cell, in order to prepare an answer to this new urgency, of coordination with the International federation of the Red Cross and the Haitian Red Cross (CRH).
The reactivity of this device had already been tested during the floods which touched the capital last on September 24.
The teams health and water/cleansing are thus held ready to act and started by giving a report on the places of human and material resources mobilizable. Treatment units of water are preposition and of the kits cholera were ordered and will be sent from Paris in the next days.