Health Daily News: Health workers find trend in Haiti cholera ' alarming '

A mother comforts her boy, who is stricken with cholera, in the Cite Soleil slum of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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(CNN)--medical workers in Haiti on Friday called the upward trend in deaths and illnesses in the cholera outbreak "alarming" as the earthquake-ravaged nation strained already overflowed with patients of health system.

In the slum of show Soleil on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) saw 216 cases of cholera in Choscal hospital Thursday. Five days ago, this figure was only 30.

This is expected to be even higher manufacturing and days ahead.

Stefano Zannini, the head of Mission for Médecins Sans Frontieres, said staff were seen seven times where you see three days ago.

"The trend is extremely, extremely alarming," he said. "We don't have yet a peak but this could come next week '.

The deceased persons climbed Thursday to 796, according to the Ministry of public health and population of Haiti over 12,000 people have sickened.

Epidemiologists predict outbreak could last for months and say the entire nation nearly 10 million people are at risk because they have no immunity for cholera.

The UN has warned that Haiti faced one of the most severe outbreaks in the past 100 years; It calls on international donors for nearly 164 million dollars in response to money and said that anticipates and 200,000 people symptoms of cholera.

Serious concerns are now confirmed cases originating from urban scene of Port-au-Prince, who came to shelter those left homeless by the earthquake last January.Health officials fear that contamination could spread quickly in congested, unsanitary conditions and poor neighbourhoods where clean drinking water is precious.

Symptoms of cholera, an acute bacterial disease, caused by drinking water tainted, it can be mild or even non-existent, but sometimes can be serious: profuse watery diarrhea vomiting and leg cramps, which might cause a rapid loss of Body fluids and can lead to dehydration and shock.

If left untreated, a person may die within hours.

Humanitarian aid in Haiti as the nation retrieves not only from the massive earthquake and Hurricane last week.

"We are stretched thin," said Julie Schindall, a spokesman for the humanitarian organisation Oxfam.

Zannini reminded people that cholera is a logistical problem for both as a medicine is not just a matter of medical donations or more doctors over the territory, Who will provide said; clean drinking water? who will make sure there are facilities adequate bathroom?Who is going to dispose of waste; Or, for that matter, dead bodies?

"It is not just about the donation money," said Zannini. "This is for practical action. "

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