Friday, October 22, 2010

Cholera Epidemic

The death toll continues to rise as the cholera epidemic spreads rapidly through Haiti. This is the first outbreak in Haiti in more then a century. The hospitals continue to fill up with patients.
The outbreak has gotten closer to our village. In Barbancourt, the next village over, at least four people have died and many are sick. Today tons of people came to Lifeline to get water from our well, knowing they should no longer drink water out of the canals that run through the village. A big truck load full of buckets even came to dristribute clean water to the community.
Tomorrow we're going to have an informative meeting for those in our area to teach them precautionary measures to take to avoid the spread of the disease. Please pray for the people of Haiti, that this epidemic ends and no more people die.

Photo of Hospital courtesy of Getty Images

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