The SRK-physician Martin Weber reports from the cholera hospital in the Haitian Grand-Goâve, Karl Schuler, SRK, the phone conversation was recorded with him.
Martin Weber in the cholera hospital in Grand-Goâve. Photo: SRK
Yesterday and today it has been raining heavily here. Since the otherwise already poor roads are impassable in many places, so many Sick the way in our cholera station no longer create. As the weather outlook is better for tomorrow, we therefore expect a new wave of patients from the outlying villages. For many patients trudge on foot here, as many van drivers refuse to carry cholera victims. I suspect therefore that there is a high under-reporting of cholera patients.
the now quieter day, I mostly use to make the three local doctors and 16 nurses with the most important treatment for cholera rules more familiar. For since this bacterial disease in Haiti have never occurred, the medical staff is not familiar with it.
is particularly important to carry out continuous monitoring the sick, especially because children and young people are at risk for acute diarrhea very quickly fatal. They must be treated intensively and fed with a salt-water solution. As patients suffering from severe diarrhea, the care and cleaning is demanding. Many of them also suffer from tuberculosis or other diseases, which complicates the treatment.
In our three tents we treat current 36 patients. In the next 24 hours we are preparing intensively for the potential onslaught of additional cholera patients.
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