Haiti gets $US 20 million to fight cholera
Published:Thursday | December 16, 2010 | 9:55 AM
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the government of Spain will provide US$20 million in emergency grants to help Haiti fight its cholera epidemic.
The disease has reportedly claimed more than 2, 200 lives since late October.
The IDB approved a US$15 million grant while the Spanish Cooperation Fund for Water and Sanitation in Latin America and the Caribbean will provide a US$5 million grant for the programme.
The grants will allow the Haitian Ministry of Public Health and its partners to establish and operate a network of 2,000 oral rehydration posts.
It will also fund 190 cholera treatment units and 10 cholera treatment centres in priority areas, such as the poor coastal neighbourhoods of Port-au-Prince.