Tuesday 8 November 2011

Haiti group demands UN pay for cholera outbreak (AP)

FILE - In this March 8, 2011 file photo, a woman suffering cholera symptoms is carried to a local hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.  In January 2012, health workers will fan out in the Central Plateau and the capital, urging people to seek vaccinations and then documenting those who do. The program will inoculate only 1 percent of the population and deplete the world's stock of available cholera vaccine.  Cholera, spread by water and contact with other people who have the disease, has sickened nearly 500,000 and killed more than 6,500, according Haiti's Health Ministry. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery, File)AP - A human rights group said Tuesday it has filed claims with the United Nations seeking damages on behalf of more than 5,000 Haitian cholera victims and their families.



Related News:-

  • Haiti's escalating cholera outbreak


  • Public anger over Haiti's cholera outbreak erupted this week as protesters clashed with United Nations soldiers in Cap Haitien, the Caribbean nation's second largest city. One ...
  • Minustah's filthy record in Haiti


  • Yves Engler: The overwhelming evidence is that the UN force in Haiti caused the cholera that has killed thousands: a highly symbolic tragedy
  • HAITI - CORAM DEO: October 2010


  • DEATH AND DIRTY WATER: CHOLERA'S GRIM MARCH THROUGH HAITI (Toronto Star) - By Jennifer Wells DROUIN -At 6:15 on a weekday morning Lovely Avelus is not yet in her cherry red ...
  • Haiti | Facebook


  • Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload ...

No comments:

Post a Comment

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...