UN provides $ 400 million to fight cholera in Haiti

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The United Nations will invest $ 400 million to fight the cholera virus in Haiti and to compensate the victims of the outbreak, which has killed almost 10,000 people and deepened the precarious situation of tens of thousands Of family, this was published by EFE

UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson said: "This decision wants to be an apology, it wants to demonstrate how the UN feels what has happened." The current outbreak of cholera in Haiti was propitiated by a battalion of Nepalese deployed on the island to help after the earthquake of 2010.

Some 800,000 people in Haiti have been infected, of which more than 9,000 have died, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO).

For years, the UN denied the link between the epidemic and the deployment of blue helmets, and even had to plead in court for a lawsuit filed by victims of the cholera outbreak in Haiti.

200 million of the 400 will be used to fight against the epidemic, and the other 200 to help recover the affected families.

With Hurricane Matthew on Oct. 4, humanitarian agencies feared a resurgence of the disease. To avoid this, WHO sent one million doses of the cholera vaccine to Haiti.

Despite the fact that normally for the immunization is actually effective two doses of the vaccine have to be inoculated, WHO experts decided that they would only inject one, in order to reach, even with less