"But such promises have been made before. The house-less believed they would start getting new homes -- or at least sturdier temporary shelters -- months ago. Only $897 million of the more than $5.7 billion pledged for 2010-11 has been delivered."
The $897 million mentioned is nowhere to be seen.
It constitutes, moreover, a total disregard for the truth to assert that 100,000 people have been treated in a clinic administered by "Doctors without Borders."
In a statement to the press by Dr. Lea Guido, representing the Pan American Health Organization-World Health Organization (PHO/WHO) in Haiti, reported today that the number affected through December 11 had reached 104,918 people, a truly unprecedented number of people who could not have been treated in a "Doctors without Borders" clinic.
It is clear, and Clinton knows full well that Europe, the United States and Canada drain doctors, nurses, therapists and other health technicians from Caribbean countries, which lack the personnel needed to carry out that task, with a few honorable exceptions.
Obviously, with his lies, Clinton is presuming to ignore the work of more than 1,000 Cuban and Latin American doctors, nurses and technicians bearing the brunt of the battle against the epidemic in the only way possible, that is by reaching the most remote corners of the country. Half of Haiti's 10 million inhabitants live in rural areas.
Such a great number of people, under such conditions, would not have been treated without the support of the eminent Latin American woman who represents the WHO in Cuba and Haiti.
Our country has committed to mobilizing the human resources needed to complete this noble task.
As she stated, "The human resources Cuba is sending are, at this moment, moving to the most isolated areas of the country. And this is very timely."
They are arriving now and very soon the necessary personnel will be there.
Yesterday, the Cuban Medical Brigade treated 931 patients, with two deceased, for a mortality rate for the day of 0.2%.
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