The Princial Commissioner of Léogâne, Jean-Alex Pierre-Louis, reported that 28 prisoners (23%) out of 123 of the Police Station of Petit-Goâve, are suffering Chikungunya. Commissioner Pierre-Louis confessing his powerlessness faced this epidemic, spread by mosquitoes that enters cells and spares no one, calls for assistance to health authorities for sick prisoners who require care and medicines, stressing that "Detainees were already taken to Notre-Dame Hospital to receive necessary."

However, Notre-Dame Hospital that receives numerous cases of chikungunya from the city center and communal sections is overwhelmed and is unable to meet the needs of patients and for lack of available doctors and of enough drugs.

Faced with this situation, members of the public demanding the departure of the Medical Director, Dr. Watson Exantus for absence and mismanagement...

Recall that chikungunya is not transmitted from person to person but only through a contaminated mosquito to a healthy person.

Learn more about chikungunya :

The name chikungunya, of makondée origin, means "that curves, that huddles" or "the man bent disease" because the disease causes very severe joint pain associated with stiffness, which gives infected patients a curved characteristic attitude. Chikungunya (chik) is an infectious disease caused by an arbovirus of the family "Togaviridae" transmitted by mosquitoes. Several species of mosquitoes can transmit chikungunya, but only Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus have so far been identified as epidemic vectors, note that these species are also involved in the transmission of other arboviruses such as: dengue, dengue fever hemorrhagic fever, yellow fever, etc...

The first symptoms of the disease (incubation) occur 2-6 days after the person has been infected and starts suddenly with a high fever usually associated with severe joint pain and transient rash. These symptoms are sometimes accompanied by muscle aches, headaches, digestive disorders. Chikungunya is a disabling disease not only because of the pain but also due to fatigue it causes in more than half of the patients. In some patients, the effects, particularly rheumatological, may persist for several months or even several years. There is no effective drug against chikungunya. The treatment of the disease is only symptomatic and relies mainly on the administration of drugs painkillers and anti-inflammatory treatments. Aspirin should be avoided because of the risk of bleeding.

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https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-11138-haiti-health-632-cases-of-chikungunya-provisional.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-11092-haiti-health-chikungunya-14-cases-confirmed-in-the-country.html

HL/ HaitiLibre / Guyto Mathieu (Correspondant Petit-Goâve)