Cholera spreads; some sixty people treated by MSF

Cholera seems to be continuing its course in Haiti despite the measures announced by health authorities to contain it. Proof: the NGO Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announced in a note that it has treated 68 people with the disease at its treatment centers set up in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area.

MSF said it has a 10-bed Cholera Treatment Center (CTC) in the Brooklyn neighborhood (Cité Soleil), another with 20 beds at the MSF emergency center in Turgeau and a third CTC with a capacity of 50 beds at the MSF hospital in Cité Soleil, which is ready to receive new cholera patients.

“The other units are already full,” MSF announced, revealing that “in recent days, several people with symptoms resembling the disease have arrived at the MSF emergency center in Turgeau and the hospital in Cité Soleil.”

“A test sent to the national laboratory from a Turgeau patient came back positive for cholera,” the document noted.

In total, 68 patients had been admitted to MSF facilities in the Brooklyn neighborhood and the Cité Soleil and Turgeau centers as of Oct. 3, 2022.

“This resurgence of cholera comes at a time when the Haitian population faces enormous difficulties accessing health care,” the medical NGO lamented.