To cope with food shortage and the penury of other primary goods "some alternative solutions have been found: those who can pay cash try to buy food on the spot which is available on the market for exorbitant prices," explains Mr Tagliani. "This is because it is difficult to have food delivered in the area, but also because big importers and traders are taking advantage of the situation," says the AVSI humanitarian worker. Then he recalls the "efforts made by the UN agency to organise some special fights and freighters with the aim of replenishing the stocks of food and other primary goods such as blankets, pots and so on," in the next ten or fifteen days. From a medical point of view, "we still fear a cholera outbreak, even if the situation is under control for the moment. We have to take into consideration that cholera is endemic here. Which means a cholera pandemic will cause the death not of two, three or four people but of fifty, a hundred people a week. ” ” ” “
