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Le choléra tue un réfugié par minute selon MSF
Card Number 36548
Number
36548
Author
Bobillier, Laurence
Author
Peaster, Philippe
Date
21 juillet 1994
Ymd
19940721
Time
12:00:00
Time zone
CEST
Uptitle
Journal de 12 heures
Title
Le choléra tue un réfugié par minute selon MSF
Size
15185 bytes
Pages nb.
2
Source
Type
Transcription d'une émission de télévision
Language
FR
Abstract
- Resources are woefully inadequate to meet the needs of the thousands of Rwandan refugees exiled in Zaire. Urgent appeals are mounting, and epidemics threaten the most vulnerable within the camps. Cholera has claimed at least 800 lives in 24 hours.
- The same grim ritual: hundreds die every day. From exhaustion, hunger, and, above all, thirst. And now, something even worse: epidemics.
- For the lack of water is the most critical issue. The refugees in Kibumba fetch water from Lake Kivu, on the border between Zaire and Rwanda. It is deadly water, responsible for cases of dysentery and now cholera; 800 cases were recorded this morning.
- Humanitarian organizations on the ground are calling it an epidemic, as nearly two million refugees are packed together right now at the Zairian border. Overcrowding and a lack of infrastructure prevail. According to MSF, cholera is killing one refugee every minute.
- NGOs are announcing the emergency dispatch of equipment and specialized teams. But in the meantime, in the coming hours, tens of thousands more people will fall ill. And facing this emergency is the same old logistical problem: the limited capacity of Goma airport, the region's only rapid access point.
- Ultimately, the only solution to the problem is political: the return of the refugees to Rwanda.
- The same grim ritual: hundreds die every day. From exhaustion, hunger, and, above all, thirst. And now, something even worse: epidemics.
- For the lack of water is the most critical issue. The refugees in Kibumba fetch water from Lake Kivu, on the border between Zaire and Rwanda. It is deadly water, responsible for cases of dysentery and now cholera; 800 cases were recorded this morning.
- Humanitarian organizations on the ground are calling it an epidemic, as nearly two million refugees are packed together right now at the Zairian border. Overcrowding and a lack of infrastructure prevail. According to MSF, cholera is killing one refugee every minute.
- NGOs are announcing the emergency dispatch of equipment and specialized teams. But in the meantime, in the coming hours, tens of thousands more people will fall ill. And facing this emergency is the same old logistical problem: the limited capacity of Goma airport, the region's only rapid access point.
- Ultimately, the only solution to the problem is political: the return of the refugees to Rwanda.