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Health Cluster Bulletin #27 –

Cholera and Post-Earthquake Response in Haiti In preparation for the arrival of Tropical Storm Emily, the COUN (National Emergency Operations Center) and EJOINT (Emergency Joint Operations Center) were activated and subsequently deactivated with Emily’s dissipation. Preparations proved to be a useful exercise as hurricane season is underway. The storm dissipated as it reached Haiti on 4 August bringing with it some rain and wind, but thankfully nothing to the scale that was expected and causing no real damage or increase in cases.

Health Cluster Cholera and Post-Earthquake Response in Haiti Epidemiological Alert:

Update on the Cholera situation in Haiti and the Dominican Republic Epidemiological Alerts In Haiti, the national number of cases and hospitalizations has decreased in the past three weeks, following the increase which occurred between EW 20 and 25. At the local level two departments, Nord and Nord Ouest, recorded an increase in the number of new cholera cases and new hospitalizations since EW 22. Meanwhile, Port-au-Prince and the Centre, Grand Anse and Nippes departments which had recorded an increase in cases between EW 22 and 23, have recorded a decline for the past three weeks. While in Dominican Republic, the Ministry of Public Health reported that since the beginning of the outbreak up to EW 29 of 2011 they recorded a total of 13,200 suspected cholera cases and confirmed 87 deaths due to cholera. The Distrito Nacional and the provinces of Elías Piña, San Cristóbal, San Juan, San Pedro de Macoris, Santiago and Santo Domingo Este and Oueste registered the highest rates of cholera transmission.


Humanitarian partners prepare for Tropical Storm Emily

Haiti is bracing for severe wind and rain as Tropical Storm Emily approaches. Authorities have called on people living in coastal and low-lying areas to evacuate to higher ground. The country is still recovering from last year’s devastating earthquake.

Over 630,000 are still living in emergency shelters in and around the capital, Port-au-Prince. In the south east of the country, where Emily is expected to land, health facilities and cholera treatment centres have been evacuated. Humanitarian partners are on standby to distribute shelter materials, food and medical kits. In anticipation of the 2011 hurricane season, humanitarian partners and the Government of Haiti developed contingency plans to help Haitians weather the impact of heavy rains and storms. The season kicks off in June and ends in November. Evacuation routes and shelters have been identified and mapped. Health supplies for 120,000 people, emergency shelter materials for over 100,000 people and water, sanitation and hygiene materials have been pre-positioned in a number of strategic locations throughout the country.

In flood-prone areas including the Artibonite and Sud-Ouest departments and the Port-au-Prince Metropolitan area enough food for has been pre-positioned to feed 500,000 people for three weeks. Humanitarian organizations are also disseminating public awareness messages, focusing in particular on people in camps in Port-au-Prince. Humanitarian partners have distributed over 35,000 copies of Chimen Lakay, a comic-style newspaper that shows how to securely tie down tents and tarpaulins before a storm approaches.



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