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PAHO – Cholera in Haiti update, Oct. 28, 2010

PAHO EOC Situation Report #7 – Cholera Outbreak in Haiti

Date: 28 Oct 2010

Summary

As of today, Haiti’s Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP – Ministère de la santé publique et de la population) has reported 4,649 cases and 305 deaths in four departments. Artibonite and Central are the most affected areas.
The MSPP is training community health workers on the use of oral rehydration salts in order to provide treatment rapidly to the population. In addition, twelve messages have been developed to be disseminated to the public regarding hand washing, good hygiene and sanitation, safe food handling and others that prevent the spread of disease.
Given the current situation, MSPP has established a flexible surveillance system to collect daily data on cholera, and the participation of NGOs that provide medical care in displaced person camps is critical. The MSPP with the support of PAHO will be holding trainings on this surveillance system, taking into account the Internally Displaced Persons Surveillance System (IDPSS) in order to create a clearer picture of the disease trend.

Full- report: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/MUMA-8ANVTM/$File/full_report.pdf

Nigeria: Bauchi Spends N70 Million to Check Cholera

Oct 29, 2010, Bauchi — The Bauchi State government has procured and distributed drugs and disinfectants worth N70 million to check the spread of cholera in the state.

Governor Isa Yuguda, who disclosed this yesterday in Bauchi at the opening of the state’s Council on Health meeting said, “The holistic approach to the management of the epidemic has reduced its fatality rate.”

The governor, who was represented by his deputy, Garba Gamawa, said government decentralized the state’s Ministry of Health by creating the Hospitals Management Board, State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Bauchi State Agency for the control of HIV/AIDS tuberculosis and malaria, all in a bid to revive the sector.

He said the government also recruited 2,592 health workers and provided water and electricity in all general hospitals in the state.

The Commissioner for Health, Alhaji Muhammed Yahaya Jalam, said the state has developed strategies to achieve efficient health care delivery for its citizens. Jalam, who said the meeting of the health council was the first of its kind, expressed hope that the participants would come up with ways to improve health care delivery in the state.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201010290408.html

Haiti and Pakistan cholera updates – WER, Oct 29, 2010

Weekly Epidemiological Record, 29 October 2010, vol. 85, 44 (pp 437–444)

Cholera, Haiti
Cholera, Pakistan
Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) and dengue fever, Pakistan
Global vaccination update, 2009

Full-text - http://www.who.int/wer/2010/wer8544.pdf

UN probes base as source of Haiti cholera outbreak

Oct 27, 2010 – MIREBALAIS, Haiti (AP) — U.N. investigators took samples of foul-smelling waste trickling behind a Nepalese peacekeeping base toward an infected river system on Wednesday, following persistent accusations that excrement from the newly arrived unit caused the cholera epidemic that has sickened more than 4,000 people in the earthquake-ravaged nation.

Associated Press journalists who were visiting the base unannounced happened upon the investigators. Mission spokesman Vincenzo Pugliese confirmed after the visit that the military team was testing for cholera — the first public acknowledgment that the 12,000-member force is directly investigating allegations its base played a role in the outbreak.

Meanwhile the epidemic continued to spread, with cases confirmed in two new departments in Haiti’s north and northeast, said U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs spokeswoman Imogen Wall. At least 303 people have died and 4,722 been hospitalized.