“I visited the doctor with my daughter in this camp two days ago. Her three-year-old boy, Ahmed Musa, looks very pale and ailing because of dehydration.Īnother girl, Halima Khatun, 6, has suffered from high fever for the past four days. “My son has suffered from diarrhea for the past two days,” said Morium Begum, a Rohingya refugee living in Balukhali camp, while waiting in the queue for the doctor at a health center. DHAKA: As the monsoon starts showering in the Rohingya refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar, water-borne disease makes a fresh attack on the inhabitants of the congested bases.Īccording to World Health Organization (WHO) situation update report, last week 873 Rohingya patients were identified with Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD) - nearly double the average number of AWD patients in recent weeks.Īid agencies are feared to have more waterborne disease patients in the mid-monsoon.
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