Reflections by comrade Fidel: Haiti - Underdevelopment and the genocide
few months ago, on 26 July 2010, made me Lucius Walker, Director the U.S. organization Pastors for Peace, at a meeting with Cuban intellectuals and artists asked what could be the solution to the problems of Haiti.
Without hesitating a second, I said to him: "In today's world there is no solution for the country, Lucius, in the future, of which I speak, they are there. The United States is a major producer of food, they can provide 2 billion people, they had the ability to build earthquake-resistant houses, but the problem is the way how resources are distributed. In the area of Haiti must be even to the woods all restored be,. but in the current world order is not solvable "
Lucius was referring to the problems of that mountainous, overpopulated country that is devoid of trees, fuel for cooking, communications and industries, and a high illiteracy rate has, where diseases such as HIV is and is manned by UN troops.
"If these circumstances change," - I added - "will you yourself can bring Lucius, food from the United States to Haiti."
The good-natured and humanitarian leader of the Pastors of Peace died six weeks later, on 7. September, at the age of 80, and left many Americans the germ of his example.
The additional tragedy had not yet emerged: the cholera epidemic that on 25 October had recorded more than 3,000 cases. To such a catastrophic disaster is the fact that on 5 November, a hurricane devastated the country and caused flooding and flooding of the rivers.
deserves this whole dramatic circumstances so that their attention is paid to the attached.
Cholera appeared in modern history for the first time in 1817, year in which occurred in one of the great pandemics, the humanity in the 19th Century scourged, and the high mortality caused, particularly in India. In 1826, the epidemic took place again with them, Europe, devastated, including Moscow, Berlin and London, and from 1832 to 1839 spread to our hemisphere.
In 1846 a new, more dangerous epidemic fires that ravaged three continents: Asia, Africa and America. Throughout the century, such repeated epidemics that affected all three continents. 100 Nevertheless, for years, almost the entire 20 Century saw the Latin American and Caribbean free of the disease to 27 January 1991, where she appeared in the port city of Chancay, north of Peru. It spread along the first Coasts of the Pacific and along the Atlantic was concerned, 16 countries, it affected 650,000 people over a period of 6 years.
concerns no doubt that the epidemic of the poor countries much more strongly in the cities are very populated neighborhood accumulate, which often do not even have drinking water and waste water, which carry the disease-transmitting cholera pathogen, mingle with those.
is in the particular case of Haiti so that the earthquake destroyed both sewerage systems, where these were available, and millions of people live in tents, and often do not even have latrines and everything gets mixed up.
The epidemic which has affected our hemisphere in 1991, was that of the cholera pathogen Vibrio 01, biotype El Tor, serotype Ogawa, exactly the same that was entered in that year to Peru. Jon K. Andrus
, Deputy Director of the Pan American Health Organization informed that the bacteria encountered in Haiti was just exactly this. From this derive from several factors to be considered, which may for the moment, to have significant considerations.
As is known, is our country have since some time and provides excellent Haitian doctors for many years, health services in that sister country. There were serious problems in this area and from year to Year, made progress. No one could have foreseen that an earthquake would take place, that killed over 250,000 people and causing numerous casualties and wounded dignity, having no history in this regard was. In view of this unexpected blow our internationalist doctors have doubled their efforts and dedicated to their work without a break.
the midst of the hard natural disaster unleashed in less than a month, the strong cholera epidemic, and as we have already said, under these circumstances so unfavorable to the hurricane arrived.
Given the difficult situation yesterday, said Valerie Amos, UN Deputy Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs that a further 350 doctors and 2,000 nurses are needed to address the epidemic.
The functionary called for extending the help on outside Port-au-Prince, and revealed that the supply of soap and clean water, only 10 percent reached the outside of the capital housed families without considering how many of them in Town reached.
Several UN officials have complained in recent days that the response of the international community to call for help to meet the situation, not even 10% of the requested with urgency has reached 164 million U.S. dollars.
"Amos called for a quick and urgent response to prevent the death by cholera of even more people, "informed a news agency.
Another Agency announced today that the number of dead Haitians have to "People 1523" shall, "66 593 have been treated, and over one million people remain in public places."
Nearly 40% of the patients were treated by members of the Cuban Medical Brigade, the sisters of 965 doctors, nurses, and experts that have succeeded to reduce the number of deaths to less than 1 per 100 cases. With this level of treatment would the number of deaths does not even reach 700. The dead were usually those who were weakened by malnutrition and other factors highly. Of the children diagnosed in time hardly one has died.
It is extremely important to prevent that the epidemic will spread to other countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, because under the current circumstances it would cause in the nations of this hemisphere, an extraordinary loss.
It forces on the need to seek effective and quick solutions to combat this epidemic.
was decided today by the Party and government, the Cuban Medical Brigade in Haiti, with a contingent of 300 doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals from the brigade "Henry Reeve" step up, so they would have a total of 1,200 employees.
Raul is visiting other areas of the country and reported everything accurately.
The people of Cuba, the party and the government are once again rise to the occasion and make a glorious and heroic history of credit.
Fidel Castro Ruz
26th November 2010 21:58
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