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Listen: Is the UN responsible for 7000 cholera deaths in #Haiti?@Doylebytes & @inglesi's radio doc online now bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00…
- Cholera in Haiti
"....The staff is sick and tired of the impunity extended by the office of the Secretary-General to senior managers for their failings especially in situations where it has led to death and disability....." - UN Staff Union
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Last broadcast today, 12:05 on BBC World Service (see all broadcasts).
Today, 16:05 on BBC World Service
Almost seven thousand people have died of cholera in Haiti over the past year.
It's by far the largest outbreak in the world today.
But how did a disease - which has been absent from Haiti for over a century - arrive in the country?
Poor sanitary conditions at a United Nations camp are being blamed for the outbreak.
The UN has denied this but families of cholera victims are now demanding compensation from the United Nations.
For Assignment, Mark Doyle follows the course of the epidemic and examines the controversy that surrounds it.
This programme which was produced by Piers Scholfield contains a graphic account of cholera symptoms.
(Image: A child undergoing treatment for cholera . Credit: Reuters)
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