The Haitian Health Ministry said Friday that 76 more people had died from cholera, raising the total number of victims to 1,186 since the first outbreak of the disease detected one month ago in north of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince.

More than 19,000 people remain hospitalized, according to the ministry.

In Port-au-Prince, hundreds of thousands of people survive in improvised tents and in precarious sanitary conditions since the Jan. 12 earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale shook the country.

The efforts to contain the cholera epidemic now face a series of disturbances in the streets of the capital, where hundreds of people continue to clash with UN soldiers. The protesters blame the UN soldiers for bringing the cholera epidemic to the country.