Cholera outbreak has spread outside the Central Valley Rural Haiti, reinforced fears the disease could be reached in the miserable camps Plane that thousands of earthquake victims in the capital.

Saturday morning, said nearly 200 people in the worst crisis in the Caribbean nation’s poor health killed since the earthquake on 12 Authorities in January and more than 2,000 people ill.

The two first cases of cholera outside the central Artibonite approved Friday Arcahaie, city destroyed by an earthquake near the capital Port-au-Prince. Experts were also checking the possible cases of Croix-des-Bouquets, a suburb of the capital, radio reports said there were two cases of diarrhea Gonâve dozens island.

Health officials fear mongering about the outbreak in the capital, where thousands of people under hygienic conditions in refugee camps.

“It is very, very dangerous,” said Soren Claude, president of the Haitian Medical Association. “Port-au-Prince has more than 2.4 million people, and how we live in is dangerous enough.” Obviously much more needs to be done. ”

Government and aid agencies rushed supplies and medical assistance, including 10,000 boxes of water purification, according to World Health Organization.

Ministry of Health has confirmed 194 deaths and 2364 cases of cholera, “said Imogen Wall, a spokeswoman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

focused “E” in Artibonite for the moment and we do our best to keep it that way, “Wall said.

Dozens of patients lying on a treatment waiting for St. Nicholas Hospital in the coastal town of San Marco on Friday, some of them drive the flies on stained mattresses and human waste.

One, aged 55, presented by Jill Sanatus Jordany us last night. The doctor, fought a needle in my arm.

“This completely dry, so hard. It is hard to find the vein,” said Dr. Roasana Casimir, which was found almost continuously since the outbreak on Wednesday worked.

Casimiro finally penetrated the vein and fluid began to drip out of the bag, but half of the 10 hours after his father was deceased. Two employees of the Hospital of the body to sue to the morgue behind the hospital on the floor for the family for burial.

Son Sanatus “said the family was drinking water from the river that flows into the central plateau. Minister of Health, said Alex Larsen on Friday that the river has been tested positive for cholera.

Wall said the remains of contagious patients are quarantined enough deaths.

“Move Part of the problem for the people much, and good insulation in the hospital,” he said.

Patients from around the barren Artibonite Valley are received that area thousands of refugees after the earthquake on 12 January, 300 000 people were killed and destroyed the capital, 45 miles (70 kilometers) south of San Marco. Which were welcomed most of the new to the family.

Cholera was not in Haiti before the earthquake, but experts warn that the conditions ripe for disease affected areas with limited access to drinking water.

“You can not tell because the earthquake, but by the earthquake situation here requires a high degree of attention, as the epidemic spreads,” said Michel animals, Program Officer Pan American Health Organization.

Cholera is a bacterial infection spread by contaminated water. It causes severe diarrhea and vomiting that can lead to dehydration and death within hours.

Larsen, Minister of Health, for people with diarrhea, their rehydration serum to keep salt, sugar and water way called to the hospital drink.

The number of cases continues to increase, as Haiti has no built-up immunity to the cholera, “said John Andrews, Deputy Director Pan American Health Organization Regional Office of America, that sending medical teams to the neighboring Dominican Republic as a preventive measure.

“We have everything in place for what we know has grown,” said Andrews.