Santo Domingo.– A total of 71 people have died from cholera-related diseases since last November, including nine deaths last week, the Public Health Ministry said on Friday.
The number of suspected cholera cases had risen to 10,760 after 1,014 new cases were registered alone during last week. With the arrival of the rainy season, the health authorities have tightened measures to prevent the spread of cholera and other diseases.
The first cholera cases in the Dominican Republic were detected in November 2010, one month after a massive outbreak started in Haiti.
From: United States
"the health authorities have tightened measures to prevent the spread of cholera and other diseases."
Who the f... are you kidding?
They have a collective IQ of 20 and the ONLY thing they care about is their money and big flashy SUVs.
They do not care if the poor die from Cholera, these people are deemed untouchables like in India's cast system.
From: United States
Ewww the minus morons are back.
Douche bags, if your government gave two shits about the people that are getting Cholera, they would have started building waste treatment plants 20 years ago.
Transparent corruption and your draconian Spanish cast system has set the DR back 50 years.
Written by: BASTA, 9 Jul 2011 10:09 AM
From: Dominican Republic, =Ghetto/Legalize Drugs
gmiller261, 2++ for you and 1 zillion------s for LFf and his Pork Chop
From: Puerto Rico
I was in the Higuey area last week and got stopped by this so-called policeman who was trying to "macutear" by saying stupid stuff like "as a tourist, you should have seen that this car does not have a revista", to which I rebutted, "my man, please tell me the year of this car (a 2011)" He obviously saw that i was no fool and knew the laws in the DR so he reluctantly let the "case" go. Watch out people, this type of conduct gets exacerbated every time that new elections are about to take place. It is a sort of changing of the guard mentality where those in charge of the "law", knowing that there is a possibility of losing their little jobs adopt a pirate mentality of looting and pilfering...
From: Dominican Republic, No Spin Zone
Let us not return to yesteryear and Hippo and the 40000 thieves .....now we are talking the real pirate mentality of looting and pilfering...
Written by: BASTA, 9 Jul 2011 2:19 PM
From: Dominican Republic, =Ghetto/Legalize Drugs
Partidos Ladrones Dominicans = Better an Haytian instead of LFf our queen bee
From: Canada
The cholera challenge requires much more attention than it is getting. ... obviously. ... yet lives are sacrificed to the gods of indifference and contempt. ... perhaps expatriot dominican initiative could start a cholera blog and identify the people, locations, and all details of the crisis, who is responsible within the appropriate national agencies, itemize their activities. ...
From: United States, Fresh Water Paradise-NY Finger Lakes
No one would convince me that picture represents a Dominican hospital. More likely, it is a German hospital. The patients are all anglo-looking, a visitor is sporting a winter coat, and everything looks in its right place and orderly. No, this cannot be in DR!
MJEV.
Written by: Botemon, 9 Jul 2011 6:00 PM
From: Dominican Republic, La Isabella
On 12 Jun 2011, the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) reported 344 623
cases of cholera and 5397 related deaths (average case fatality rate
1.6 percent) since the beginning of the outbreak in October 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/3z6md9aFixed!
Written by: Botemon, 9 Jul 2011 6:02 PM
From: Dominican Republic, La Isabella
From: Canada
Bateman. ... excellent link. .... lots and lots of names to fill in to know the patients, the medical helpers and the leaders responsible to face and conquer this challenge.
... the dual heart break of the enduring broken society in haiti and the grinding poverty in the dr are man made constructs. ...
From: United States
Like I said a LOOOONG time ago, regardless of where the Cholera outbreak came from - Nepalese UN workers? or wherever, the main problem has to do with contamination of the WATER and then the FOOD. The Dominican Government is trying to kill two birds with one stone, deporting Haitians and trying to reduce the chance of outbreak in the Dominican Republic. But, Cholera is very treatable IF caught early enough, but the reason it is sticking around is because the Government preferes to invest in Movie Studios and such instead of taking care of the bad water systems in the barrios. The rich live in comfort and the common everyday people, the MOST important people get the second hand treatment. smh. I just HATE to see such a lack of concern for the everyday Dominican people because the Governments wants to play monopoly instead.
Written by: RoyStone, 9 Jul 2011 8:23 PM
From: Australia
The water and sewerage systems in rural areas are sadly lacking, but the people pay nothing for them and don't pay municipal rates either, so what do you expect? Maybe the wealthy have better systems, but they are paying for both.
Written by: RoyStone, 9 Jul 2011 8:30 PM
From: Australia
Jeanarenas,
Stopping tourists in new cars is more lucrative than stopping un-registered un-roadworthy death-traps driven and ridden by intoxicated locals at night with no lights, with a whole family on-board. The Dominican Republic has one of the highest road death-tolls in the world, but perhaps it has positive cash-flow?
From: Dominican Republic
The infamous G2...the so called elite team of the Dominican military. One time they read my ownership upside down and said there was a problem with it! LOL
I now empty my wallet on my drive from Bavaro to La Romana...knowing that I will be stopped twice...even if I just went through hours before and while looking at my ID...they scope out the wallet.
I really feel safe with these thieves on the road!
From: United States
Waste water gardens have been around for centuries. They work, they are simple and it does not take a genius to maintain.
In some island countries, Hotels have been using them for 20 years.
http://www.wastewatergardens.com/1en_overview.htmlThe DR will be a tourist’s LAST choice if this explodes and where is the moron who said there will be NO deaths contributed from Cholera in the DR? Typical Government moron puke.
From: United States
Along with crime, HIV, social disorder, and furher empoverishment of our towns and cities, this is another of the many side effects of the Haitian exodus into our territory..
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
jeanarenas .even a 2011 model car needs a matricula and a back plate ,,,for 3 months after purchase of a new car you do not need the sticker on the window and may have a temporary plate but after 3 months you need the legal plate and the sticker ..so the AMET man , who you call a so called policeman was correct in asking you ...it has nothing to do with any election . The AMET people want to make sure that no one else has taken your car and the police and the army want to make sure that you do not have illegal guns or passengers in your car .
as normal RoyStone has done no research to support his statements and the DR does NOT have one of the highest road tolls as a percentage of cars on the road or as a perecntage of the population ...the region with the highest is the Asia - Pacific area !!!!!
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
GlomarEx ,,as you are hardly ever in the DR, how would you know about Dominican hospitals,,,maybe if you visited a few good hospitals here you would be quite impressed and could write with some knowledge ..Plaza de Salud is just one good hospitalin SD,
It is very easy to avoid become infected with cholera and people must take some responsibility for their own health ..
of course Gmiller would like nothing better than to see the DR lose tourists but this will not happen and there will be no exposion of cholera if people do not use dirty water .
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
Just to put the cholera problem in the DR into perspective for gmiller, there are far more HIV cases in the DR every year than there are cholera cases ,,HIV is at present not curable but cholera is very easily ...yet the tourists still come to the DR both diseases are easily avoidable and tourists know that .
Written by: RoyStone, 10 Jul 2011 10:21 PM
From: Australia
Ricardolito,
According to e WHO, World Bank, UNESCO, CIA and individual country databases for global health and causes of death, road deaths per 100,000 population are:
Dominican Republic 34.8
(higher than any other country in the Asia-Pacific region including
Australia 6.8)
http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.co....oad-traffic-accidents/by-country/If your figures do not include motorbikes or un-registered vehicles, horse-drawn carts, etc, then they are meaningless and useless.
The point I was making is Dominican police are more interested in getting money from tourists than saving lives or preventing injury, and I challenge anyone to prove otherwise.
From: Canada
First of all ...Peace to DR and Haiti people everywhere.
... some of the comments feel like the english and french in canada.
... i dare all of you to read 'Champlains Dream', in his day french versus english versus native indians and catholic versus protestant.
... and what did he achieve none other had done until winston churchill? Like 300 years of few others personalities to consider within a canadian context? He worked with everyone, used his position of power without graft and personnally involved himself in making compromises to keep peace. ... the man made 27 trips across the atlantic in the early 1600's ... i would be reluctant to canoe in a local lake. ...
From: Canada
So the solution is a combo approach yet again. ... move people off the river banks, plan out a septic/slit trench system for the relocated people, instruct them in creole, french and spanish about hygiene, add plants to the rivers to filter the water, and for government agents. .... get personal initiative and do good work!
Written by: RoyStone, 10 Jul 2011 11:06 PM
From: Australia
Sadly the government will only make gestures until the tourist industry becomes a fatality. Meanwhile the people have a scapegoat - Haiti!
From: United States
To the dutchmaster and. Franco explain to me why is allthing wrong with Dr is haiti's fault. Yet you seem not to understand the dr needs haiti as much as haiti needs dr. You have to mujch hate in your heart my brother. Thank god not all dominicans are like you guys and read more and you will know where the cholera come from
From: United States
the haitian. Ignore Carlos he argues with himself and loses the argument everytime. Roy only speaks the truth.
From: United States
For all you blaming the Haitians.
Are you f...en nuts? This is typical Dominican rhetoric. "It is everybody else's problem but ours", "it happens everywhere in the world"
your transparently corrupt government has allowed millions of Dominicans to pollute pristine rivers with fecal matter. And if they had no idea what could happen, then they are morons and should be in jail.
Blame your government NO ONE else. Oh and grow the f... up.
From: United States
RoyStone, They "think" they have a scapegoat.
The rest of the world would just laugh at the comments that it is the Haitian's fault.
The Dominican people have to take responsibility for their own actions. Which, I am afraid, is outside their moral compass.
From: United States
Read this article on DT.
"Time’s up to change offer for tourists, French expert warns"
“Tourists are attracted to countries where there’s confidence in its public services.”
And that means not seeing a turd float by you or not smelling like someone flush the toilet in the ocean.
From: United States
So I guess cholera started in DR , we Dominican transported to Haiti ... another gift from the first black Republic amazing, has anything good or fair came out of Haiti for DR , Haiti need DR way way more than we Dominican do ,stop the shiit at it source(cholera) watch this video ,Haitians trying to break the gates at border to enter DR obligado....
http://m.youtube.com/index?deskto....2F&gl=US#/watch?v=LQROPOm657QFrom: Dominican Republic
Just back from a lap of the DR. Who was working in visible jobs??? Haitians! From the streets of Bavaro...to the burbs of the capital, the seaside towns of the north and the mountain gardens of Constanza. Without this "cheap labour...mainly employed by DOMINICANS...how would prices be?
From: United States
I don't know dutch master .but all I can say to you find out who buys dominican product the most and who went crying to the haitian gov about letting dr product come into the country when you had the birdflu outbreak. Oh I forgot we did that too. And for a country that has no job how is it we are able to find anny. I guess we are better hunter of jobs. I will not disrepect your country because I love dr and I know dominicans but why you find out how outbreak started remember we share same land same water.another quetion how come you are not part of west indian parade.are you not part of the carribean
Written by: RoyStone, 11 Jul 2011 7:14 PM
From: Australia
Cholera, like religion, spreads by people not thinking.
Sure inadequate infrastructure (water supply and sewerage) are factors, but lack of personal hygiene is the bottom line (no pun intended). Blaming someone else (tourists, the IMF, politicians, USA, former colonial masters or Haitians) is a national pass-time here. Taking responsibility is the only lasting solution. Try it!
From: United States
To theHAITIEN. If u could play dominoes drink brugal chasing the. Girl. All day. Would you get. A job....or picking a book to to try to learn. How this deseases spreads. ...nope. unstead others get blame. ........just my opnion....
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"the health authorities have tightened measures to prevent the spread of cholera and other diseases."
Who the f... are you kidding?
They have a collective IQ of 20 and the ONLY thing they care about is their money and big flashy SUVs.
They do not care if the poor die from Cholera, these people are deemed untouchables like in India's cast system.
Ewww the minus morons are back.
Douche bags, if your government gave two shits about the people that are getting Cholera, they would have started building waste treatment plants 20 years ago.
Transparent corruption and your draconian Spanish cast system has set the DR back 50 years.
No one would convince me that picture represents a Dominican hospital. More likely, it is a German hospital. The patients are all anglo-looking, a visitor is sporting a winter coat, and everything looks in its right place and orderly. No, this cannot be in DR!
MJEV.
cases of cholera and 5397 related deaths (average case fatality rate
1.6 percent) since the beginning of the outbreak in October 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/3z6md9a
Fixed!
http://tinyurl.com/3z6md9a
... the dual heart break of the enduring broken society in haiti and the grinding poverty in the dr are man made constructs. ...
Stopping tourists in new cars is more lucrative than stopping un-registered un-roadworthy death-traps driven and ridden by intoxicated locals at night with no lights, with a whole family on-board. The Dominican Republic has one of the highest road death-tolls in the world, but perhaps it has positive cash-flow?
I now empty my wallet on my drive from Bavaro to La Romana...knowing that I will be stopped twice...even if I just went through hours before and while looking at my ID...they scope out the wallet.
I really feel safe with these thieves on the road!
In some island countries, Hotels have been using them for 20 years.
http://www.wastewatergardens.com/1en_overview.html
The DR will be a tourist’s LAST choice if this explodes and where is the moron who said there will be NO deaths contributed from Cholera in the DR? Typical Government moron puke.
as normal RoyStone has done no research to support his statements and the DR does NOT have one of the highest road tolls as a percentage of cars on the road or as a perecntage of the population ...the region with the highest is the Asia - Pacific area !!!!!
It is very easy to avoid become infected with cholera and people must take some responsibility for their own health ..
of course Gmiller would like nothing better than to see the DR lose tourists but this will not happen and there will be no exposion of cholera if people do not use dirty water .
According to e WHO, World Bank, UNESCO, CIA and individual country databases for global health and causes of death, road deaths per 100,000 population are:
Dominican Republic 34.8
(higher than any other country in the Asia-Pacific region including
Australia 6.8)
http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.co....oad-traffic-accidents/by-country/
If your figures do not include motorbikes or un-registered vehicles, horse-drawn carts, etc, then they are meaningless and useless.
The point I was making is Dominican police are more interested in getting money from tourists than saving lives or preventing injury, and I challenge anyone to prove otherwise.
... some of the comments feel like the english and french in canada.
... i dare all of you to read 'Champlains Dream', in his day french versus english versus native indians and catholic versus protestant.
... and what did he achieve none other had done until winston churchill? Like 300 years of few others personalities to consider within a canadian context? He worked with everyone, used his position of power without graft and personnally involved himself in making compromises to keep peace. ... the man made 27 trips across the atlantic in the early 1600's ... i would be reluctant to canoe in a local lake. ...
Are you f...en nuts? This is typical Dominican rhetoric. "It is everybody else's problem but ours", "it happens everywhere in the world"
your transparently corrupt government has allowed millions of Dominicans to pollute pristine rivers with fecal matter. And if they had no idea what could happen, then they are morons and should be in jail.
Blame your government NO ONE else. Oh and grow the f... up.
RoyStone, They "think" they have a scapegoat.
The rest of the world would just laugh at the comments that it is the Haitian's fault.
The Dominican people have to take responsibility for their own actions. Which, I am afraid, is outside their moral compass.
Read this article on DT.
"Time’s up to change offer for tourists, French expert warns"
“Tourists are attracted to countries where there’s confidence in its public services.”
And that means not seeing a turd float by you or not smelling like someone flush the toilet in the ocean.
Sure inadequate infrastructure (water supply and sewerage) are factors, but lack of personal hygiene is the bottom line (no pun intended). Blaming someone else (tourists, the IMF, politicians, USA, former colonial masters or Haitians) is a national pass-time here. Taking responsibility is the only lasting solution. Try it!