While the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization have spent decades trying to eradicate polio, with very good results in the Congo there has been an outbreak of highly lethal, where the date of this publication, there have been 201 cases of acute flaccid paralysis and 104 deaths have been confirmed at least 5 cases where wild poliovirus has been established (WPV1) with atypical attacks in adults. This gives the contrast with the case mix that was brought, where the number of cases worldwide was reduced by almost half due to the achievements in Nigeria and India, with reductions in cases of 97% and 93% respectively.
In Haiti, the epidemiological emergency is due to the outbreak of cholera, whose perspective is provided under the chaotic confluence of variables that have joined in the high vulnerability of this population, where natural events have contributed with disaster. The figures, to November 10, talk about something more than 12,300 hospitalizations and 800 deaths, which shows the work that the health sector should be facing right now.
occasion of the humanitarian reform in the UN system, the response to disasters is done in the most organized and coordinated as possible. This is how the agencies providing health care are added to the call Health Cluster, to ensure that their actions support the health sector much more efficient and effective. Indeed, this group of health care in Haiti has launched the first newsletter, dated Nov. 11, which share information for the knowledge and dissemination of people and institutions.
For those who work in the area of \u200b\u200bRisk Management on Disaster, it is our duty to keep abreast front responses and needs of agencies providing relief and humanitarian assistance to these types of events worldwide, bearing in mind that epidemiological emergencies should also be integrated to the topic of Risk Management.
consultation recommended Spaces:
- Emergency Operations Center of the PAHO http://bit.ly/COE-OPS
- Alert and Response, Epidemic and Pandemic WHO: http://bit.ly/gar_oms
- Moro B., "Implementing Humanitarian Reform in Colombia", published in the website of the Humanitarian Practice Network, December, 2009, Issue 45, available in http://bit.ly/refhumcol1 , accessed 13/11 / 2010
- Arcas I., "United Nations Humanitarian Reform I: the cluster approach", published on the website of the Institute of Studies on Conflicts and Humanitarian Action, May, 2009, available at http://bit.ly / refhum2 , accessed 13/11/2010.
- global initiative to eradicate polio: http://bit.ly/9Ujjky
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