The cholera vaccination campaign in Haiti has been extended until December 28, United Nations spokesman Stephen Dujarric reported on Tuesday.
The head of the UN press office reported that the campaign, led by the Haitian Ministry of Health and with the support of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), will try to reach as many adults as possible, mainly in the capital. , Prince Port.
“There are confirmed cases in nine of the ten departments and, although the rate of new suspected cases has slowed in Port-au-Prince, there are sharp increases in the rest of the country,” the UN said.
The cholera outbreak It was detected on the Antillean island last October and, according to figures from the health authorities, it has left 280 dead, more than 1,220 confirmed cases and some 14,000 suspected cases of the disease.
A dispatch from the UN agency for children, UNICEF, denounced in October that “gang violencefuel shortages and road blockades” were the main obstacles to humanitarian access to safe drinking water and health services for patients.
UNICEF continues to support the delivery of vaccines, in addition to the supply of fuel to its counterpart for the maintenance of the cold chain and portable vaccine carriers in the communities to the teams that operate in the communities.
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