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WHO warns of Cholera outbreak in Bangladesh camps
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned of a growing risk
of a cholera epidemic at makeshift refugee camps in Bangladesh where
hundreds of thousands of MyanmareseRohingya Muslim refugees are sheltered in dire conditions.
Since August 25, more than 435,000 Rohingya Muslims have been pushed
out of their ancestral land in Rakhine State in western Myanmar because
of government-sanctioned violence by soldiers and Buddhist mobs.
The army claims Rohingya militant attacks prompted a military
“cleansing operation,” but numerous reports, including by United Nations
(UN) officials and eyewitnesses, have revealed horrific abuse taking
place against the Rohingya Muslims under military siege in Rakhine,
including killings, rapes, and torture.
The UN has described the practices against the Rohingya as “textbook ethnic cleansing.”
Muslims fleeing the violence in Myanmar have been arriving in
neighboring Bangladesh, which has been accepting them for decades. As a
result, some 68 sprawling refugee camps and settlements have emerged in
Bangladesh along the border with Myanmar’s Rakhine. ‘Critical and challenging situation’
The WHO said on Monday that the camps did not have safe drinking water and lacked sufficient hygiene.
“Risk of waterborne diseases is high, especially there is very high
risk of cholera and this is why everyone is concerned,” the WHO said in a
statement.
The group Doctors without Borders (MSF) warned last week that the
camps were on the brink of a public health disaster as filthy water and
feces flowed openly through the camps.
There are also acute shortages of food and medicine in what has quickly become one of the world’s most urgent refugee crises.
The WHO statement said that, “Interventions are being scaled-up, however, the situation remains critical and challenging.”
The latest influx has overwhelmed the camps around Cox’s Bazar.
The WHO says mobile medical centers have been set up, while
Bangladeshi health authorities say they have treated some 4,500 Rohingya
for diarrhea in a month and vaccinated some 80,000 children for measles
and polio.
A Rohingya refugee child walks near makeshift shelters at
the refugee camp of Balukhali near the locality of Ukhia, in Bangladesh,
September 22, 2017. (Photo by AFP)
“We are trying our best to face the challenges. But we are
concerned,” Enayet Hossain, the deputy head of Bangladesh’s health
services department, told AFP.
The department said that at least 10 Rohingya Muslims had died in
Bangladesh since the influx, most from bullet and blast wounds suffered
in Rakhine.
Two elderly Rohingya men died of diarrhea at a charity clinic more
than a week ago, said Misbah Uddin Ahmed, a health department official
at Ukhia, where most of the camps are located.
Two Rohingya women, aged 50 and 60, were shifted to a hospital in the
port city of Chittagong after they were diagnosed with HIV, police
said.
Ahmed said specialists from Bangladesh’s International Center for
Diarrheal Disease Research (ICDDRB) and government scientists had
visited camps to take samples. “They are going to set up two field
stations here,” he said.
The Bangladesh army forces, which have taken over aid management,
said command had made sanitary facilities the “highest priority” in an
effort to stave off a health emergency.
Meanwhile, the situation was said to be improving as hundreds of
latrines and tube-wells were being dug by government services and local
charities.
The refugees have given shocking accounts of killings and mass rapes by Myanmar soldiers and Buddhist mobs.
UN doctors based in the makeshift clinics in Bangladesh have cited
symptoms of rape and horrific sexual abuse on Rohingya Muslim women
arriving from western Myanmar.
United
Nations (UN) doctors based in makeshift clinics in Bangladesh have
reported symptoms of rape and horrific sexual abuse on Rohingya Muslim
women arriving from western Myanmar. below
‘Mass grave’ found in Myanmar
Meanwhile, Myanmarese military forces claimed on Monday that they
were searching for dozens of missing Hindu villagers feared dead after
the discovery of a mass grave containing 28 corpses outside the village
of Ye Baw Kyaw in Rakhine.
Myanmar claimed the Hindu villagers, who had not yet been identified,
had been massacred by Rohingya militants and buried in the mass grave
found by military troops in Rakhine on Sunday.
Myanmar has blocked access to Rakhine, making it impossible for independent and international bodies to verify such claims.
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