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Haiti `facing cholera treatment shortages`

25.11.2010 [12:16]
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Baku, November 25 (AZERTAC). Haiti needs at least 1,000 more nurses and 100 doctors to stem deaths from its cholera epidemic, the UN`s top humanitarian official has said.

Health workers in Haiti are also having to cope with shortages of almost all necessary equipment, Valerie Amos said during a visit to the country.

The Haitian government says more than 1,400 people have died.

Meanwhile, the World Bank has announced a $10m (Ј6.3m) emergency grant for Haiti.

In Haiti, the UN humanitarian chief said doctors and nurses across Haiti were overwhelmed and their efforts were being hampered by dire shortages of necessary supplies, from soap to body bags.

"We clearly need to do more," Baroness Amos told the Reuters news agency during a visit to the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince.

"But it`s not just money, it`s crucially people, in terms of getting more doctors, nurses, more people who can help with the awareness-raising and getting information out there," she said.

The UN would reach out to countries and aid organisations with the potential to rapidly supply medical staff, she said - for example Cuba, which already has about 400 doctors and other health workers in Haiti.

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