This Friday, the deputy Arnel Bélizaire began his 12 days of hunger strike entering a second much more critical phase, a nurse watch now on his health.

A strike that seems to leave in the indifference most of his colleagues who are not in opposition and so far no one has made ​​any effort to meet the demands of the parliamentary (including the release of political prisoners and dismissal of the President of the Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSPJ)). Moreover, by this action, the Deputy Bélizaire also intends to express his indignation and denounce some acts of the Executive, of the Legislative and the Judiciary power...

any of his parliamentary colleagues believe he loses his time and advised him in vain to abandon "Physically I'm a little reduced. I want stubbornly to my hunger strike until I can no longer," said Arnel Bélizaire.

In addition, deputies of the opposition in a letter to Deputy Stevenson Thimoléon, President of the Lower House, dated July 31, require that a special meeting be conducted urgently to rule on the hunger strike of their colleague and find a solution.

On Thursday, a delegation of "Democratic Movement for Democratic Opposition" (MOPOD), led by Jean-André Victor, General Coordinator of MOPOD made ​​a solidarity visit for the second time to deputy Bélizaire. The Delegation of MOPOD deplores the trivialization of the strike of deputy by parliamentarians, highlighting the health consequences for teh deputy.

What to know about of hunger strike :

You should know that during the first 10 days, a hunger striker, usually feels "good" if he have a sufficient supply of water. He has a rapid weight loss (loss of water and salt) and its movements are normal.

Between the 10th day and the 30th day, the person begins to feel ill, weight loss continues at a slower rate (melting fat). There is a decrease in muscle strength, dizziness and headache, concentration difficulties, increasing fatigue, muscle aches and talk gradually becomes very tiring.

After 1 month, the person will feel downright sick, loss of hunger and thirst, apathy scarce movement, nausea, vomiting with a slow and shallow breathing. Appear slurred speech and communication, hearing loss and visual acuity. It was at this stage that usually occurs complications, although they may occur earlier due to health history of the striker.

Then we enter the final phase in a variable delay, depending on the state of health of the person, at this stage, everything evolves very quickly, usually in a few hours : major confusion and significant mood changes, coma and then death. Few studies is on hunger strike but examples scenarios have shown that death could occur between 60 and 90 days after initiation of fast total. In case of late stop, the organism can need several months to recover and sometimes with permanent consequences.

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https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-11685-haiti-politic-arnel-belizaire-6th-day-hunger-strike.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-11659-haiti-politic-4th-day-of-hunger-strike-for-deputy-belizaire.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-11642-haiti-politic-arnel-belizaire-began-a-hunger-strike.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-11517-haiti-politic-arnel-belizaire-excluded-from-parliament.html

SL/ HaitiLibre