Port au Prince, 18 nov (EFE).-the number of deaths by the cholera epidemic in Haiti amounts to 6,700, reported today the Office for the coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations (OCHA) as, however, predicted a reduction in the coming months.
According to a report of the Agency, citing data from the Ministry of public health and population (MSPP), last month registered 202 dead and 21.797 cases by the disease, which erupted in Haiti in October 2010.
In September, he added, 185 people were killed and more than 14.740 were affected.
It noted, however, expect a steady decline in the number of new cases by the epidemic with the dry season that starts in December and runs until March.
According to OCHA, the epidemiological trend is declining after the rains of October in some departments of Haiti
Currently, the number of daily cases rises to 500, against the 671 recorded in October and which is much less than 1,100 daily cases that were reported in June.
The report indicated that the national cholera mortality rate is 1.4%, while in certain departments rates variables.
This number is 206 people per 100,000 in the Department of the Grand Anse (South) and 37 for every 100,000 in South
The disease in the Caribbean nation is attributed, according to several sources, a regiment of Nepalese forces members of the UN Mission for the stabilization of Haiti (Minustah), which would have been contaminated with feces a river in the region of Mirabalais, in the Centre of the country.
