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Thursday, January 27, 2011
The number of people dying from cholera in Haiti has been on a downward trend or has stabilized in all ten of the countrys departments affected by the outbreak, the United Nations humanitarian office has reported.
However, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that it remains unclear whether the epidemic has reached its peak.
The cholera outbreak was first reported in October last year and led to the setting up of cholera treatment centres and smaller treatments units throughout affected areas, and a call from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for the international community to provide immediate massive aid to fight the epidemic.
As of January 16, Haitis public health ministry reports 194,095 cumulative cases of cholera and 3,889 deaths, with an overall fatality rate of two per cent nationwide at 2.3 per cent.
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