Medical Teams International Responds to Cholera Outbreak in Haiti

PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 26, 2010)—250 people have died and more than 3,100 people are suffering with Cholera in Haiti. Medical Teams International has sent an eight-person team who arrived today and will send a second team to Haiti starting Wed., Oct. 27. The teams will respond to this cholera crisis. Up to 30 volunteer medical professionals, organized by Medical Teams International’s Haiti field office are living in tents on a beach near the cholera-infected area. Medical Teams International is working in four hospitals in order to provide quality care to people suffering from cholera.