Battling cholera in Haiti's frontier
Biggest challenge to tackling the disease lies in the countryside
December 15, 2010
By Amber Hildebrandt, CBC News
This article is about a spreading epidemic that cause a lot of lives, deaths and sufferings of the people of Haiti. Living in the rural area is the major challenge to dealing with the disease that lies in the countryside. Looking at the picture seeing a lifeless girl, lying on "a rusted metal twin-bed frame with strips of bamboo" is heart-breaking. This girl has a cholera, she was carried by her loved ones to a hospital, and then buildings by buildings, doors by doors, they walk her for hours just to get some help and some answers for the cure of the dying girl. Patients or people suffering from cholera that came from rural communities in the valley and surrounded by mountainous areas in the central region goes all the way through a long journey and a lot of obstacles just to get into some hospitals or medical facility. There are doctors, and some nurses, some health-care facility, Red Cross, health clinics that help the residents of Haiti but I think that that is not enough resources and help for these people to survive. I think that the government or who ever are responsible and have the ability to prioritize the Haiti people should basically just give more support or financial assistance and attention to this rapidly growing harsh conditions. Haiti obviously does not have a clean drinking water, which causes diarrhea that will eventually lead to dehydration and death. Some patients have no access to medicine, a lot of people died everyday that weren’t in a hospital, cholera can lead to death straight away. I think that it is because of the poor health communications or transportations and water hygiene in Haiti, but also of course of some start natural realities. This is a country where medical workers worked tirelessly this past year to help victims of the earthquake, hurricanes etc.. rapid spreading disease of cholera, we can see that there's hope, and if there's unity, faith and love for our own country we can make the world a better place to live.
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