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As concerns rise over massive health challenges in the aftermath of the country’s cataclysmic earthquake, Haiti confronts the hardening prospect of national elections two weeks from now in the midst of a series of disasters. Nearly one month after cholera took hold in the desperately poor Caribbean nation, the number of fatalities soared to 917, up considerably from Friday’s 796 recorded deaths.

The Health Ministry also said 14,642 people had been treated in hospital, about 2,300 more than on Friday.
At least 13 of the deaths were recorded in the teeming capital Port-au-Prince, including its largest slum Cite Soleil and its suburbs.

Most of those treated already have been released, but a wave of new infections is swamping understaffed and ill-prepared hospitals and clinics across the country.-AFP