Tweet
<span style="font-weight: bold">News Source: OTGNR - </span>
<span style="font-weight: bold"> UN Secretary General Ban Ki - m...Haiti (BBC)...</span>
The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon made an urgent appeal for massive increased funding to tackle Haiti's cholera epidemic. Mr Ban told a conference at the UN headquarters in New York that Haiti was in desperate need of more medical supplies and personnel.More than 1,800 people have been killed since mid-October and experts warn hundreds of thousands more could be hit by the disease.The World Health Organisation and the Pan-American Health Organisation now estimate that the cholera epidemic in Haiti could affect as many as 650,000 people over the next six months. Mr Ban appealed for funding to tackle Haiti's cholera epidemicPhoto Credit: (BBC)http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...60614527315110
<span style="font-weight: bold"> UN Secretary General Ban Ki - m...Haiti (BBC)...</span>
The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon made an urgent appeal for massive increased funding to tackle Haiti's cholera epidemic. Mr Ban told a conference at the UN headquarters in New York that Haiti was in desperate need of more medical supplies and personnel.More than 1,800 people have been killed since mid-October and experts warn hundreds of thousands more could be hit by the disease.The World Health Organisation and the Pan-American Health Organisation now estimate that the cholera epidemic in Haiti could affect as many as 650,000 people over the next six months. Mr Ban appealed for funding to tackle Haiti's cholera epidemicPhoto Credit: (BBC)http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...60614527315110