By Michael Ritter | National Program Director
In the first ten months of the outbreak, cholera has claimed over 6,200 lives and has resulted in over 439,000 cases of the disease. Household chlorination in rural areas is a key component of the cholera response strategy published by DINEPA (the Haitian government’s Directorate of Water and Sanitation). DINEPA’s goal is to provide all families in rural areas with access to an approved, affordable chlorine product to treat their water at the household level. Gadyen Dlo, DSI’s locally produced chlorine product, is the product of choice for the third phase of DINEPA’s chlorine distributions.
To meet the increased demand, DSI has increased its production capacity through enhanced technologies. Twenty new jobs within have been created as a result of this project, in addition to the increased demand for buckets and bottles which are produced by local manufacturers. To date, enough Gadyen Dlo has been produced to treat 72 million gallons of water, and we are near our goal of 92 million gallons of safe water specifically with respect to the partnership with DINEPA and UNICEF. Our production capacity is now sufficient to serve the rural population’s needs at a national level, and continued support allows us to both increase our capacity to supply the population and create sustained demand for proper household water treatment.
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