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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Apr 28, 2015
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• Category : Haiti News
• Description : Written by Staff Writer on 24 April 2015.
  
  Photo: UN chief Ban Ki-moon leaves a home he visited during a trip to the cholera-afflicted rural village of Los Palmas in Haiti. [Marie Arago/Reuters/file]
• Location : Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti
• Website : http://www.sentinel.ht/lifestyles/articles/mind-body/6060-haiti-cholera-cases-hit-record-highs-due-to-under-funding

Overview

• PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (sentinel.ht) - Registered figures for the first quarter of 2015 shows cholera cases in Haiti have surpassed figures from 2012, when the epidemic was at its peak. The Ministry of Health points to humanitarian under-funding as the cause.
  
  From January 1 to March 31, 2015, the Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP) reported 11,414 suspected cases of cholera and 105 deaths, including 3,037 in March.
  
  These figures represent more than three times those recorded in the same period last year when 3,772 cases and 28 deaths had been reported.
  
  They are also slightly above those recorded in the same period in 2012 when the epidemic was at its peak (10,832 cases and 61 deaths).
  
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