Cuban Medics in Haiti Put the World to Shame
Nina Lakhani, The Independent. Cuba’s doctors and nurses are the backbone of the fight against cholera in Haiti.
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Fidel’s Reflexions: MINUSTAH and the Epidemic
By Fidel Castro Ruz, Escambray. Today we are getting reliable and believable news about what really happened. The Haitian people had reason aplenty to express their indignant protests.
Continue reading →Fidel’s Reflexions: News About Cholera in Haiti
By Fidel castro Ruz Escambray In his latest reflections, Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro summarizes the actions undertaken by the Cuban medical brigade in Haiti to fight cholera, “something that becomes a threat for all the other peoples of Latin … Continue reading →
Fidel’s Reflexions: Seven Days With No Cholera Deaths
By Fidel Castro Ruz Escambray Cuban Revolution leader examines the fact that no cholera deaths have been reported in Haiti during the last seven days. … Continue reading →
Fidel’s Reflexions. Haiti: Underdevelopment and Genocide
By Fidel Castro Ruz, Cuban News Agency. Almost 40% of the sick have been looked after by members of the Cuban Medical Brigade which has 965 doctors, nurses and technicians who have managed to reduce the number of dead to less than 1 for each 100.
Continue reading →Haiti Cholera Outbreak Spreads to Port-au-Prince Prison
By Staff, BBC | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. How does cholera manage to move from the Artibonite River to a Port-au-Prince prison?
Continue reading →The People Rise Up in Haiti. Indict the U.N. and Government for Introducing and Distributing Cholera, and for Organizing Bogus Elections
By Staff, Haitian Truth | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Three news bulletins on the Nov 18, 2010 anniversary of the Bataille de Vertieres and the popular uprisings when Haitians learned about MINUSTAH’s importation of cholera into the country.
Continue reading →UN Faces Heat Over Haiti Cholera
By Staff, Al Jazeera. Locals in Haiti’s second city of Cap Haitien have clashed with U.N. peacekeepers for a second consecutive day, throwing stones at patrolling teams and calling for their removal from the country after the deaths of at least two people during a protest over an outbreak of cholera that has killed at least 1,000 people. Some Haitians blame Nepalese peacekeepers for the epidemic.
Continue reading →Cholera for Sale In a Blue Plastic Bag: Infected Water Distributed in Haiti as Purified
By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. As of October 28, 2010, over 300 Haitians have died and over 4,000 have fallen ill of cholera. The press immediately blamed “poor sanitation in the camps” for the outbreak, although the outbreak began in the pristine small towns of St. Marc and Mirebalais that had not suffered any earthquake damage.
Continue reading →Haiti: In Leogane, Venezuelan Doctors Go to the People | A Léogâne, les Médecins Vénézuéliens Vont Vers la Population
Staff, HPN | Translated by Dady Chery for Haiti Chery. “By contrast to other groups of foreign doctors, we visit citizens’ dwellings so we may assist a greater number of people with their sanitation needs.” – Emiliano Melero, coordinator of Venezuelan doctors in Haiti. (English | French)
Continue reading →Parasitism in the Tropics: The Coming Floods, Disease, and Immunity in Haiti
By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Among the parasites that prey on humans, those most pernicious live in the tropics and work by proxy.
Continue reading →In Haiti, More than 95,000 Patients Treated By Cuban Medical Brigade
By Leticia Martínez Hernández Granma PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti.— More than 95,000 patients have been treated here to date here by the Cuban medical brigade since the January 12 earthquake, and 4,500 operations have been performed. However, as brigade coordinator Carlos Alberto … Continue reading →
Haitian doctor takes 100 patients into his home
By Mike Melia, The Independent. It wasn’t long after Tuesday’s earthquake leveled nearly all of the houses next to Dr. Surena’s that neighbors started to show up at his doorstep.
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