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Cholera
Outbreak: 2,000 evacuated from Haiti refugee camp
Saturday November 06, 2010 03:36:37 PM,
EFE
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Geneva: More than 2,000 people
were evacuated from a Haitian refugee camp in Corail to a nearby
hospital to prevent the further spread of cholera, a humanitarian
organisation has said.
"The displaced persons who remain in the camps are being given
bottled water to prevent any further expansion of cholera," the
International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Friday.
One of the main concerns of international humanitarian
organisations is that the disease could invade the refugee camps
that now shelter more than 1.3 million people who were forced to
leave their homes by an earthquake.
"We still don't know if there has been any case of the disease in
the camps," IOM spokesperson Jemini Pandya said.
The director of the World Health Organization's special cholera programme, Claire Chaignat said last week in Geneva that "all the
mechanisms are working to halt the worst scenario, which would be
the spread of cholera in the refugee camps and in the capital,
Port-au-Prince."
The cholera outbreak in Haiti has already left 442 dead and 6,742
hospitalised, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs.
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