Hurricane Matthew
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 9:32 pm
An estimated 842 lives lost in Haiti - and counting...
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Re: Hurricane Matthew
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 9:36 pm
Poor bastards. I got caught in a hurricane a few years ago and the damage it does tompoorly built structures is incredible, and this one was far weaker than Matthew. Haiti was in trouble before this, now it must be horrific for the locals.
Re: Hurricane Matthew
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 10:58 pm
These people just get flattened every time. Earthquakes, hurricanes.....how is the Dominican Republic doing? Over 800 people dead. Jesus. You beat Napoleon and slavery only to be shat on every 5-10 years.
Re: Hurricane Matthew
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2016 2:54 pm
Cubans and Colombians first to send aid. I think the Cubans were the first to help out after the earthquake as well, from memory. In fact, they have one of the highest ratios of trained doctors in the world and have been known to help out after disasters all around the world. They even offered to help after Katrina, but the US rejected their offer... 
Re: Hurricane Matthew
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2016 3:47 pm
Oh really?I don't think you've ever mentioned that before...
Re: Hurricane Matthew
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2016 5:42 pm
I had a sense of de ja vu when I was writing it actually. 
But kudos to the Cubans & Colombians anyway. You won't hear much in the English language media about it, I suspect.
But kudos to the Cubans & Colombians anyway. You won't hear much in the English language media about it, I suspect.
Re: Hurricane Matthew
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2016 12:12 am
Cholera outbreak in Haiti follows... 
Cholera has killed at least 13 people in southwest Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, government officials told Reuters on Saturday, as health workers sought to reach the epicenter of one outbreak.
Six people died of Cholera in a hospital in the southern town of Randel, which is inland near a river, and another seven died in the western coastal town of Anse-d´Ainault, the officials said, likely as flood waters mixed with sewage.
"Randel is isolated, you must cross water, you must go high in the mountains, cars cannot go, motorcycles cannot go,” said Eli Pierre Celestin, a member of team that fights Cholera for the health ministry. "People have started dying."
"There are nurses but no doctors," he said, concerned that Cholera would spread due to lack of hygiene and as ground water moved because of rain and floods.
He said there were also outbreaks in Port-a-Piment and Les Anglais.
Cholera causes severe diarrhea and can kill within hours if untreated. It is spread through contaminated water and has a short incubation period, which leads to rapid outbreaks.
Hurricane Matthew left almost 900 people dead in Haiti and caused major flooding and loss of livestock.
It slammed into South Carolina on Saturday, after skirting the Atlantic coast of Florida and Georgia, causing widespread power outages and flooding.
Dr. Donald Francois, head of the Haitian health ministry´s cholera program, said 62 others were sick with Cholera as a result of the storm.
"We are concerned about these new outbreaks of Cholera we are seeing in new districts," he told Reuters. "The situation is particularly difficult in Randel and (nearby) Port-a-Piment."
"I am on my way to the south region to assess the situation and ensure all the necessary measures are in place," he said, adding that he had heard unconfirmed reports that as many as 50 people may have died from Cholera in southern Haiti.
The aid group Doctors Without Borders scrambled teams by helicopter to southern Haiti to respond to Cholera cases.
Clifford Gauther, the health ministry´s director for Haiti´s Sud Department, said Cholera treatment centers, many made of metal sheeting, were destroyed by the hurricane. The ministry was rebuilding them.
"Almost every October we have a spike (in Cholera cases), but this time it's worse, 70 to 80 cases,” he said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm ... SKCN1280SG
Cholera has killed at least 13 people in southwest Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, government officials told Reuters on Saturday, as health workers sought to reach the epicenter of one outbreak.
Six people died of Cholera in a hospital in the southern town of Randel, which is inland near a river, and another seven died in the western coastal town of Anse-d´Ainault, the officials said, likely as flood waters mixed with sewage.
"Randel is isolated, you must cross water, you must go high in the mountains, cars cannot go, motorcycles cannot go,” said Eli Pierre Celestin, a member of team that fights Cholera for the health ministry. "People have started dying."
"There are nurses but no doctors," he said, concerned that Cholera would spread due to lack of hygiene and as ground water moved because of rain and floods.
He said there were also outbreaks in Port-a-Piment and Les Anglais.
Cholera causes severe diarrhea and can kill within hours if untreated. It is spread through contaminated water and has a short incubation period, which leads to rapid outbreaks.
Hurricane Matthew left almost 900 people dead in Haiti and caused major flooding and loss of livestock.
It slammed into South Carolina on Saturday, after skirting the Atlantic coast of Florida and Georgia, causing widespread power outages and flooding.
Dr. Donald Francois, head of the Haitian health ministry´s cholera program, said 62 others were sick with Cholera as a result of the storm.
"We are concerned about these new outbreaks of Cholera we are seeing in new districts," he told Reuters. "The situation is particularly difficult in Randel and (nearby) Port-a-Piment."
"I am on my way to the south region to assess the situation and ensure all the necessary measures are in place," he said, adding that he had heard unconfirmed reports that as many as 50 people may have died from Cholera in southern Haiti.
The aid group Doctors Without Borders scrambled teams by helicopter to southern Haiti to respond to Cholera cases.
Clifford Gauther, the health ministry´s director for Haiti´s Sud Department, said Cholera treatment centers, many made of metal sheeting, were destroyed by the hurricane. The ministry was rebuilding them.
"Almost every October we have a spike (in Cholera cases), but this time it's worse, 70 to 80 cases,” he said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm ... SKCN1280SG
Re: Hurricane Matthew
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 11:42 am
Why has this current catastrophe been buried?
However, in terms of material damage – over 80 percent of houses destroyed, livestock, a season’s crops, not to mention trees dead – Hurricane Matthew is proving very devastating. This is to say nothing of urgent public health concerns like hunger and a spike in cholera, a disease U.N. troops brought to Haiti in 2010.
Regardless of the reason, coverage of this storm and its aftermath have been underwhelming. At $120 million, the current U.N. Flash Appeal for Haiti was a small fraction of 2010 pledges, $16 billion. Even so, 86 percent of the current appeal for food aid remained unfunded as of November 4, a month after the storm.
This lack of urgency is deadly. The real disaster – chronic hunger, food insecurity, and dependency – is yet to come.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/07/ ... beginning/
However, in terms of material damage – over 80 percent of houses destroyed, livestock, a season’s crops, not to mention trees dead – Hurricane Matthew is proving very devastating. This is to say nothing of urgent public health concerns like hunger and a spike in cholera, a disease U.N. troops brought to Haiti in 2010.
Regardless of the reason, coverage of this storm and its aftermath have been underwhelming. At $120 million, the current U.N. Flash Appeal for Haiti was a small fraction of 2010 pledges, $16 billion. Even so, 86 percent of the current appeal for food aid remained unfunded as of November 4, a month after the storm.
This lack of urgency is deadly. The real disaster – chronic hunger, food insecurity, and dependency – is yet to come.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/07/ ... beginning/