Stuart Leiderman leiderman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: leiderman: online storm photos: life and death beyond the capital
I compiled a large number of good-quality online photographs from storm
zone reporters, mostly of Jeremie and Les Cayes, that can be downloaded
from DropBox:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ntc5e16bdpuhvc3/2016oct10%20compiled%27%20post-hurricane%20haiti%20-%20leiderman.pdf?dl=0
When a pop-up asks for registration, just click "no thanks" and then click
the "download" button in the upper right corner. The file is approx. 30
megabytes.
The scenes are worth studying for two reasons. First, they give a glimpse
of what's been happening (deteriorating) in the rest of the country while
the capital area hogs most of the post-earthquake attention and money.
Second, they indicate significant failures in land planning and
construction that make the country vulnerable to disaster and death,
especially the coastal zone. While ignorance is present, my impression is
that ignorance is not to blame. Nor is poverty. I believe the peril is
intentional and state-sponsored.
Nonetheless, there are exceptions. This morning, a member of the Haiti
Epidemic Advisory Group posted:
"Hello, First wanted to stay thank you for keeping all this info going.
I live in
Cazale and work with . We have been treating cholera
patients since Nov 2010 (treated around 10,000) and our facility is still
open.
We are in the west department no where near the south. We have been
helping with supplies from our center to send out through
Americares. I was writing to let you know that MSPP does have a very
strong presence
with cholera in our department. They have given all those in our area
treating
cholera phones and we sent a report each night of the amount of patients
we had
that day. We also send in weekly reports to several people within MSPP.
Whenever there is a increase in patients they will send a team out.
These teams
come to our facility and check out what is going on. They look at our
ledgers
and find out where the cases are coming from and then go to those villages.
They do educations and spray houses down. When they have supplies they also
help us out on a small scale. We also send in one stool sample per week
to the
national lab in Port for testing. We pick up these results about once a
month
for our records. So I just wanted to encourage you that they do have a
strong
presence and seem to be very active with cholera, at least in our area.
Perhaps we could pass some of our contacts along and someone could get in
contact with them to find out any info you might be needed."
The list can be joined at haiti-epidemic-advisory-system@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- - - - - - -
Thank you. If you wish to join or unsubscribe please click on this link:
//www.freelists.org/list/corbettlist
