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 cholera
Port-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.View the original article here
As nibbled breitschultrigen Stefan Stec on a fig Newton and STRAS from a suburban nursing home window stared on Wednesday, I could imagine how he spent his lucky Chicago days.
He came as a boy and virile working class man from Poland in design worked and fell in love with a local Mädchen.Sie movies every Friday night and folk dance lived together on the northwest side and then married, on Saturday.
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Or maybe you did not it.
Maybe none of this is true because Mr Stec is Renaissance hillside just because we know little about him.
By court order he is in healthcare one of the 20 districts by the Office of the public guardian, limbo sind.Ihre personal stories are fragments.You have no insurance and no family or native country who are willing to take you back.
Mr Stec, 67, a traumatic has the other brain injury, dementia and Depression.Wie is an illegal immigrant who otherwise cannot be identified he either or. This means that you are not authorized Medicaid or Medicare.
Perhaps were accident or a battle at one or was mentally ill and wrapped up in a hospital or a psychiatric department.Her family can whereabouts unclear or without success if family members who want nothing to do with the patient - especially given the burden you.
There is a developmentally disabled man who is a group home by Witek DOE in Skokie.The State thinks he's an illegal immigrant from Eastern Europe.
Sanane is read mental health center with psychiatric Problemen.Er claims different identities and social security numbers.He has a police record and says he from California.
Juan Ramirez has a brain injury and is in a persistent vegetative state non-profit Schwab rehabilitation hospital.He is an illegal immigrants with a history of arrests and officials believe, a family in Mexico coming forward.
On Friday Mr Ramírez at Schwab 745 with Schwab will eat the cost of approximately $250,000 for days."If you were documented, would not be here,", said Michelle Gittler, a Schwab physician.But more appropriate facilities take him because he has no insurance.
Zhen Ming Chen is an illegal Chinese immigrants and former restaurant workers, after a car accident was a quadriplegic links.It is located in the same hillside home with a woman in China and nieces and nephew here who oppose all guardianship unconscious.
"" Many of these people overstayed their visa and have been below the radar screen, fly ", said Helen Godlewski brownfield Office program director of a legal guardian.""Clean houses, working in kitchens to do lawn and fall between the cracks."
You can not stay forever in a hospital, County Stroger hospital, challenge is the guardian another venue for you find you are stabilized.
Mr Stec wound up in the for profit was the Stroger Renaissance because Stroger contracted with the Heimat.Er after an accident unclear Ursprungs.Frau brownfield speaks Polish and extracted bits and pieces of his life.
He told her he here occurred 20 years, worked quotas jobs including dry masonry, and married an American, who was 15 years ago starb.Er remember where lebte.Frau brownfield independently learned that he had apparently abandoned a wife and three children live social housing in Poland in a bedroom.
As Mr Stec sat bent around a circle with 12 other activities room, Danny and the juniors' "at the hop" on radio gespielt.Herr Chen was a bullet in his bed below, always oxygen by his trachea.Nur moved easily his eyes offered as TV "I Love Lucy" and "America's next top model", a benumbed audience of two patients.
"He not react; he faces only" Tam said Tran Chavez, his diligent case worker and even an immigrant curiosity, namely a Vietnamese married to a Mexican or an Vexican as you jokes.
As we walked a nurse was, "I-30" and "B-13," then questions bingo players in the hallway delete your boards aufrufen.Herr Chen seemed oblivious to it all.
But maybe not.
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