With the opening of a new centre for cholera treatment in Carrefour, Haiti, the number of such facilities set up by Cuban doctors in an effort to stop the spreading of the disease now totals nine.
The Cuban Medical Brigade is working on the localization and setting up of another 11 treatment centres in addition to 38 that are already providing assistance to people sick with cholera in Haiti, reported Granma newspaper.
According to the newspapers report, Cuban doctors have treated more than 34,000 cases and the fatality rate remains at 0.75 percent.
In record time, the Cuban doctors finished assembling of tents making up the centre in Carrefour, with 100 beds total. The community has more than 400,000 inhabitants and it is located by the side of a hill 20 kilometres from Port-au-Prince. The centre includes seven areas for the general treatment of patients, with 32 Cuban doctors. Besides being home to one of the largest marginal populations of the country, Carrefour has critical hygiene and environmental conditions and its infrastructure, particularly housing, was badly damaged by the earthquake that shook the country in January this year.
Haiti’s Public Health Ministry has reported more than 97,500 cases of cholera and 2,193 deaths from the disease.
On Sunday, the third Cuban medical brigade of 56 members arrived at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince. The group is part of the Cuban Henry Reeve International Contingent of Doctors Specialized on Emergencies and Serious Epidemics.
