The
program includes works in hospitals and other facilities in the
city, devastated by an earthquake almost two weeks ago, in the
outskirts and in other departments.
Eduardo Nuñez Valdes, an epidemiologist from the Cuban province of
Matanzas currently in Port-au-Prince, said that it is necessary to
act fast because the increase of parasitic and infectious diseases
may result in an epidemic due to the existing unsanitary conditions.
A total of 62 technicians specialized on vector-control arrived from
Cuba in Haiti to work in this campaign along with Cuban doctors and
Haitian fifth-year students from the Santiago de Cuba venue of the
Latin American School of Medicine.
The campaign includes actions against conditions that can generate
respiratory, digestive and vector communicable diseases,
particularly leptospirosis, typhoid fever, cholera, malaria and
others.
