Editorial Desk :
Living under the open sky in the sweltering heat or stormy weather without fulfilling basic amenities, the starving or half-starving Rohingya refugees, many of them U-5 or new born kids, in the makeshift camps in Cox’s Bazar are slowly dying of respiratory, skin, and diarrheal diseases. The most persecuted people fleeing certain death in Myanmar are suffering from lack of water and sanitation facilities in makeshift camps or under the open sky after entering Bangladesh. About half a million Rohingyas who entered Bangladesh put immense pressure on overcrowded health facilities while international health service providers warned of an outbreak of different water borne diseases. With the increasing need of food aid, the healthcare facility is a dire need for the persecuted Myanmar’s ‘citizens’ in Bangladesh, and it is an appeal to the world.
News media reported that Bangladesh health officials along with non-government organizations (NGOs) and international aid groups provided indoor and outdoor treatment to over 52,000 Rohingyas.
To provide basic healthcare, Cox’s Bazar Health Administration has increased capacity of their health facilities to work round the clock. UN Agencies on Tuesday said that about 4.80 lakh Rohingyas had entered Bangladesh since August 25, when the violence began
in Rakhine State, causing the fastest and most urgent refugee emergency in the world. One month after the eruption of the violence, the UN estimated that 3.20 lakh Rohingyas still needed emergency shelter, 2 lakh needed food, 2.50 lakh needed sanitation and 3 lakh needed nutrition assistance. Meanwhile, 46 Rohingya children died of diarrhoea.
Children living in temporary shelters are falling ill every day mainly due to unhealthy living conditions and lack of safe drinking water. The hot and humid weather is only increasing their woes. The exact number of the children fallen sick is hard to come by, but the doctors say they are grappling with a huge number of patients, mostly children. The scorching heat during the daytime is making the life of the Rohingyas, the children in particular, extremely difficult while their makeshift shacks with polythene roofs are hardly able to save them from the rain.
Directorate General of Health Services in Cox’s Bazar said Rohingyas are suffering from respiratory tract infections (RTIs) like fever, tonsil, pneumonia and bronchitis, diarrhea, skin diseases and injuries they sustained in the violence while around 500 women are suffering pregnancy complications. Rohingyas are defecating in the open spaces and rainwater is washing these human excreta to the ponds and water bodies from where many were collecting water for drinking and other daily needs. Doctors Without Borders warned that there is a very high risk of an outbreak of infectious diseases in the Rohingya-occupied areas given the huge and rapidly increasing population as well as low vaccination coverage among the Rohingyas in Myanmar.
All that the Rohingya refugees need most urgently is medical attention or else there be a break out of endemic situation.
Living under the open sky in the sweltering heat or stormy weather without fulfilling basic amenities, the starving or half-starving Rohingya refugees, many of them U-5 or new born kids, in the makeshift camps in Cox’s Bazar are slowly dying of respiratory, skin, and diarrheal diseases. The most persecuted people fleeing certain death in Myanmar are suffering from lack of water and sanitation facilities in makeshift camps or under the open sky after entering Bangladesh. About half a million Rohingyas who entered Bangladesh put immense pressure on overcrowded health facilities while international health service providers warned of an outbreak of different water borne diseases. With the increasing need of food aid, the healthcare facility is a dire need for the persecuted Myanmar’s ‘citizens’ in Bangladesh, and it is an appeal to the world.
News media reported that Bangladesh health officials along with non-government organizations (NGOs) and international aid groups provided indoor and outdoor treatment to over 52,000 Rohingyas.
To provide basic healthcare, Cox’s Bazar Health Administration has increased capacity of their health facilities to work round the clock. UN Agencies on Tuesday said that about 4.80 lakh Rohingyas had entered Bangladesh since August 25, when the violence began
in Rakhine State, causing the fastest and most urgent refugee emergency in the world. One month after the eruption of the violence, the UN estimated that 3.20 lakh Rohingyas still needed emergency shelter, 2 lakh needed food, 2.50 lakh needed sanitation and 3 lakh needed nutrition assistance. Meanwhile, 46 Rohingya children died of diarrhoea.
Children living in temporary shelters are falling ill every day mainly due to unhealthy living conditions and lack of safe drinking water. The hot and humid weather is only increasing their woes. The exact number of the children fallen sick is hard to come by, but the doctors say they are grappling with a huge number of patients, mostly children. The scorching heat during the daytime is making the life of the Rohingyas, the children in particular, extremely difficult while their makeshift shacks with polythene roofs are hardly able to save them from the rain.
Directorate General of Health Services in Cox’s Bazar said Rohingyas are suffering from respiratory tract infections (RTIs) like fever, tonsil, pneumonia and bronchitis, diarrhea, skin diseases and injuries they sustained in the violence while around 500 women are suffering pregnancy complications. Rohingyas are defecating in the open spaces and rainwater is washing these human excreta to the ponds and water bodies from where many were collecting water for drinking and other daily needs. Doctors Without Borders warned that there is a very high risk of an outbreak of infectious diseases in the Rohingya-occupied areas given the huge and rapidly increasing population as well as low vaccination coverage among the Rohingyas in Myanmar.
All that the Rohingya refugees need most urgently is medical attention or else there be a break out of endemic situation.
