The death rate in Haiti increased because of an earthquake.
1. Untreated injuries.
• The lack of medicines has made doctors incapable to treat their patients effectively. Medical supplies are urgently needed to be bought by other countries and sent to Haiti.
• Evacuation is required so injured people who can’t be treated in Haiti can go to available hospitals in nearby countries.
2. Lack of clean water, housing and sanitation.
• Charity institutions should not give tents to the victims but instead wood and metal so Haitians can build sheds before the monsoons.
• Clean water and sanitation should be made available to avoid dehydration and water borne diseases.
3. Lack of food.
• Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world. The available food is not enough for the victims to recover from their injuries neither for them to survive. Therefore other countries and NGO’s should support Haiti with food and water.
4. Security problems result in a fight for survival.
• Funds have been raised by countries and NGO’s but since that money will be used mostly to buy food and medicines, the earthquake victims will do anything to obtain money. Many children have become orphans and some groups of people will try to sell them for adoption.
• Accountability of the money should be enforced so the contributors could know that the money they gave reached the victims of the Earthquake.
The solutions mentioned above could be easily introduced in Haiti. There are millions of people in the world who have a lot of resources. Those individuals are egotistic and normally don’t want to share the resources they have. There are also many doctors and nurses that don’t want to leave their comfortable jobs and set out to help others in need. If Haitians and the rest of the world work together they may find the solutions to this catastrophe.
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