Exploring how the cholera outbreak occurred ten months after the earthquake was handled

Abstract

Haiti was not only hit by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in 2010, but also suffered a cholera outbreak ten months later, in October 2010. Prior to the earthquake, Haiti had been hampered by weak health system the lack of clean water and adequate sanitation. After this devastation, the Haitian people, the government, and non-governmental organizations found themselves dealing with the unexpected cholera outbreak. The Ministry of Public Health took some measures to control the outbreak and prevent its spread. However, two years after the earthquake, the international community, the Haitian government, as well as the Dominican Republic developed a new policy to set the island of Hispaniola free of cholera by 2022. This paper explores the barriers to obtaining this goal in order to understand if Haiti will be prepared in the case of a second cholera outbreak. However, the purpose of this study was to explore how the Ministry of Public Health (MSPP) and International Organizations handled the cholera outbreak that occurred in October 2010, ten months after the earthquake