Cholera patients rest in an animal hospital in Hinche, Haiti, on Sunday.NEW: Candidates continue campaigns in the final days before 28 November National electionsDoctors, nurse for the treatment of disease and trucks for the transport of the dead is briefly supplyNearly 57,000 euros including agency fees people have treatedThe outbreak is expected to overtake the initial forecast of 200,000 casesAre in Haiti? Share your photos and videos and tell us about the situation in your area Port-Au-Prince, Haiti--the death toll has risen to at least 1,344 against cholera in Haiti has sickened nearly 57,000 euros including agency fees, the Government of Haiti said Monday.
The announcement came as international health officials predict that the scale of the epidemic cholera in Haiti will exceed the initial assessments of 200,000 in the coming months.
"Having seen how behaves in this environment with these people, having seen just how poor and hungry people are familiar with the bacteria would need to revise our numbers," Nyka Alexander, a representative of the World Health Organization said in a phone call with CNN.
Health workers say Haitian population lacks immunity to cholera and Haitian medical workers lack experience treating infection, because the bacterium has not been detected on the island for more than a century.
The impoverished country weak health systems and hygiene composition only problem which shows signs of easing.
"Another factor because the epidemic has spread as far as is, and why it will continue to spread, dirty water, poor sanitation, no toilets, malnutrition and poor access to health centres," Bradley said. "People have to walk five hours at a health centre, and if you have diarrhea, I am not going to make it. "
She added, "the disease is showing weaknesses in the country."
International aid workers needing money to deal with two major shortcomings: lack of doctors and nurses trained to treat cholera and trucks transport dead bodies ", Alexander said.
WHO says it has distributed several rehydration salts for 60,000 and intravenous fluids to treat 20,000 more serious cases of cholera.
But last week, the United Nations announced it had received less than 10 percent of emergency $ 164 million requested for combating the epidemic.
"That is clearly insufficient to adequately address the epidemic," u.n. representative Farhan Haq told reporters Monday in New York.
He cited concern expressed by Nigel Fisher, humanitarian coordinator tried in Haiti, who said that critical supplies and skills are in short supply--including doctors, nurses, water purification systems, chlorine tablets, SOAP, oral rehydration salts and tents for cholera treatment centres.
Nationwide, 36 cholera treatment centres and 61 smaller units processing are defined and more equipped, Haq said. said that trials conducted in the North, where the outbreak began and near where builds a Nepal contingent of troops, does not determine who may have been responsible.
He said that anti-cholera the efforts of the United Nations have resumed in Cap Haitien after being suspended amid violence last week.
"The world food Program and who were able to restart operations in Cap Haitien, where the situation is calm," said Haq. much of the violence, Haq said led to a confirmed death involving a peace-keeping capacity, was aimed at u.n. peacekeepers accused few Haitians to carry the disease in Haiti.
But who is Alexander, in Port-au-Prince, said the situation has remained tense for proposal peacekeepers and it was not clear that it will continue to organise anti-cholera in Cap Haitien efforts.
Medecins Sans Frontieres, a medical humanitarian organization that is also referred to as doctors without borders continues its operations.
Groups that have Government of Haiti to collect the bodies of cholera victims sometimes face daunting challenges. Wednesday, Rochefort Saint-Louis said he and the team of the Ministry of health workers were attacked by angry rock-throwing residents when they arrived in a Port-au-Prince neighborhood hoist victims.
Saint-Louis told CNN the people broke the Windows of the Government and then beat and robbed of his mobile phone and money.
Meanwhile, in the midst of the crisis in health, candidates have ramping up until their campaigns over the past few days before the 28th November national elections in Haiti. streets of the capital of Haitian throbbed Monday with the sound of music blaring cellular amplifiers for some of the 19 candidates running for President.
In the western coastal town of Miragoane, political tensions exploded Monday. Antony Gae, as a resident of Miragoane, said CNN that police fired weapons to disperse demonstrators that burning tires and accusing of Haiti main Electoral Commission is biased.
According to a recent report from the international crisis group, Haiti has held 13 elections since 1987, the majority of which have been marred by delays, suspensions, widespread irregularities, fraud, boycott, unrest and violence. "
Some presidential candidates are named according to the report for the delay of the elections this year because of the cholera epidemic.
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