Haitian child being treated for cholera is placed in kids ' bed in a Samaritan Purse facility in cabaret, Haiti, on Tuesday. Despite the outbreak, officials say elections are relatively trackHaitians go to the polls than 60,000 SundayMore Haitians have fallen ill with choleraPort-Au-Prince, Haiti (CNN)--key elections will proceed as planned in Haiti despite the cholera has now sickened more than 60,000 people and threatens to keep spreading.
The death toll is now in 1,415, the Ministry of public health and Population reported Wednesday, citing data collected from 20 November. More than 25,000 people have been obtain treatment.
Some of the 19 presidential candidates have requested a postponement of the vote on Sunday.But Ken Merten, US Ambassador to Haiti, he was on the road to election process.
He said that it was registered 250000 new voters and more than 11,000 voting stations have been identified in the fifth presidential election since the fall of the dictatorship of reversed and the first key once to the polls after the disastrous earthquake in January.
"We have a problem here, cholera is something we all Haitians and grappling with, which is a major public health challenge here," he said in a new Merten conference Tuesday. "We have the elections should take place, it must be conducted and we are here to support this effort. "
Meanwhile, the Pan American Health Organization (who) said it was planning to deal with 400,000 cases of cholera in the next year, up from an earlier estimate of 270,000 over many years to come as a result of the outbreak in Haiti.
Deputy Director of the Agency, Dr. Jon Kim Andrus, "should draw up half the cases indicated in the next three months due to the explosive nature of this epidemic," said journalists in Washington on Tuesday.
"We need more than anything," he said. "More training for staff of Haiti, more doctors, more nurses, more treatment centres, more drugs, more toilets, purest water. "Ivan Watson of CNN contributed to this report.
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