Cuban Medical Brigade (BMC) (Medical Volunteers - Cholera)

12 / 14 / 2010
Cuba Opens Ninth Anti-Cholera Hospital in Haiti
http://www.cubaheadlines.com/2010/12/14/28408/cuba_opens_ninth_anti_cholera_hospital_in_haiti.html

Dec 13 (Prensa Latina) With the opening of another cholera treatment hospital in the capital's suburb of Carrefour, there are now nine centers opened by Cuba in Haiti to stop the epidemic.

The Cuban Medical Brigade (BMC) is working on assembly another 11. The island has created 38 operating units, in which some 34,309 patients have been assisted, with a low mortality rate of 0.75 percent, Granma newspaper reported on Monday.

The BMC concluded in record time the installation of the hospital's tents, with 100 beds in Carrefour, a neighborhood with more than 400,000 inhabitants, located on a hillside, about 20 km (12.4 miles) of Port-au-Prince.

With 32 Cuban health collaborators, the hospital has seven areas for the integral treatment to the patient, in the event that the spread of the pandemic is forcefully present in the area.

In addition of being one of the nation's most marginalized populations, Carrefour has bad hygiene-environment conditions and its housing infrastructure was seriously damaged after the January 12 earthquake.

So far, over 97,500 cholera cases have been reported, of them 2,193 were killed, the Haitian Ministry of Public Health and Population stated.

Source: PL

Read more: http://www.cubaheadlines.com/2010/12/14/28408/cuba_opens_ninth_anti_cholera_hospital_in_haiti.html#ixzz18DHD8Zwa
Original article here!

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