Reflections by comrade Fidel: The obligation and the epidemic in Haiti
Last Friday, the 3rd December, has decided the United Nations, a general analysis of the cholera epidemic in that sister country to . Devote The message about this decision was promising. This would certainly serve to make the public opinion on the severity of the event closely and mobilize their support for the Haitian people. Finally, there is a raison d'être is to solve problems and promote peace.
The present situation of Haiti is bad and the much-needed help is low. Our hectic world spends every year, 1.5 trillion dollars in weapons and wars. What Haiti - a country which has suffered nearly a year ago the brutal earthquake that caused 250,000 dead, 300,000 injured and widespread destruction - for its reconstruction and its development is needed, experts estimate that 20 billion, or only 1.3% of what is spent annually for such purposes.
But it is not now for what would just be a dream. The UN can not only make an appeal for a modest economic aid fare that could be solved in a few minutes, but also calls to 350 doctors and 2,000 nurses, of the non-poor countries have and which the rich countries take for them usually. Cuba has responded immediately and offered 300 doctors and nurses. Our Cuban Medical Mission in Haiti treated almost 40% of cholera patients. Quickly she has devoted himself to the call of the International Organisation of the task of searching for the specific causes for the high mortality rate. The low rate in the treated patients of them, which is below 1% - which is reduced and will continue to diminish with each day - compared to 3% in the other health facilities treated individuals working in the country.
It is obvious that limits the number of deaths not only on reported more than 1,800 people. These figures are those not included, which without medical treatment and without any of the existing health facilities visit die.
Upon investigation of the causes among those who visited with the highest severity of the disease, the health institutions to combat the epidemic, which is supervised by our doctors, they found that these were from the most remote districts of communities that have hardly any traffic and communication links. Haiti is a mountainous surface and in many places you can lie isolated places only reached by a march over rugged terrain.
The country is divided into 140 municipalities, urban or rural, and 570 municipal districts. In such an isolated hamlet situated where - according to the estimates of the Protestant pastor - about 5,000 people live, 20 of them had died from the epidemic without having visited a health facility.
the urgent investigation of the Cuban medical mission in coordination with the health authorities, it was found that 207 Haitian districts have the most remote places without access to the centers for the fight against cholera and health facilities.
In the aforementioned meeting of the United Nations confirmed that the wife Valerie Amos told of need, which the UN Deputy Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and is in an urgent mission had two days to visit the country and calculated the number of 350 doctors and 2,000 nurses. It had been necessary to bring the country 'human resources experience to calculate the amount of resources are required. That factor will also be a function of the hours and days, the staff that is dedicated to the fight against the epidemic. An important fact to consider is not only the work time spent, but the service hours. In examining the high mortality is observed that 40% of mortality in the night hours is observed, which revealed that the patients receive at these times is not the same treatment for their disease.
Our Mission estimates that the best use of staff would reduce the said total number. The Cuban Medical Mission is certain that the epidemic caused by the mobilization of available human resources of the Brigade "Henry Reeve" and the graduates of the Latin American School of Medicine ELAM even in the midst of the enormous, by the earthquake and hurricane devastation by the unpredictable rain and poverty adversity and dominated the lives of thousands of people can be preserved, which would inexorably die under the current circumstances.
On Sunday the 28th found the elections for president, the whole of the House of Representatives and part of the Senate instead, which was a tense and complicated event, which we very worried because it is an epidemic and the traumatic situation of the country with respect.
In his statement of 3rd December, said the Secretary General of the UN literally the following: "'I call on all political actors to ensure that they are no matter what their complaints or reservations about the electoral process were also included starting the violence and to debate the matter once and to find a solution before a crisis breaks out, '"reported a major European news agency.
According to this Agency has urged the Secretary-General, the international community to fulfill the transfer of 164 million dollars, of which only 20% have been presented.
It is not correct, so to apply to a country as if you scold a child. Haiti is a country that has been two centuries ago, the first of the hemisphere, that put an end to slavery. It is the victim of any type of colonial and imperialist aggression was. It was occupied by the U.S. government nearly six years ago after a fratricidal war had been broken by the fence. The presence of a foreign occupying power, in the name of the United Nations, but knows that land is not the right to that their dignity and history be respected.
The attitude of the UN Secretary General's call to the Haitian people, to avoid collisions with each other, in our opinion, incorrect. On 28 have opposition parties in the relatively early morning signed a call to protest on the streets, which they caused demonstrations and created a significant confusion in the country, especially in Port-au-Prince, and especially abroad. Nevertheless, it both the government and the opposition has managed to prevent acts of violence. The next day was calm has returned in the nation.
The European agency reported that Ban Ki-moon following Statement was made about the "elections of last Sunday in Haiti [...]. That the registered 'irregularities appear to be now more serious than was thought at the beginning'"
Anyone who has read all the information from Haiti and the subsequent statements of the main Opposition candidate who can not comprehend that the person who called you to avoid fratricidal struggles after among voters created confusion on the eve of the election results that will determine the two opposing candidates for the elections in January, now says, that the problems would have been more serious than he would have thought at the beginning, which means to add fuel to the fire of political differences.
Yesterday, on 4 December, 12th, Anniversary of the arrival of the Medical Mission of Cuba in the Republic of Haiti. Since then, thousands of Cuban doctors and health professionals serving in Haiti did. We have with his people to peace and war, lived during earthquakes and hurricanes. We are in these times of intervention, occupation and epidemics are at his side.
The President of Haiti, the central and local authorities, regardless of what their religious or political ideas are also aware that on Cuba can count.
Fidel Castro Ruz
5th December 2010 20:12
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