Arakan News Agency | Exclusive
Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh have been witnessing increasing numbers of fever amongst refugees.
Arakan News Agency reporter stated that hundreds of refugees especially children and elderly are falling sick with high fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, and weakness.
Refugees are using mosquito nets 24 hours a day to protect themselves from the infection as they find difficulty in reaching proper medical care.
Many refugees headed to Medicine Sans Frontier MSF hospital for treatment, but they are given only mild medicine that isn’t strong enough for serious conditions.
The illness is spreading day by day, and this situation is getting worse, Arakan News Agency said.
More than one million Rohingya refugees live in the Cox’s Bazar area of Bangladesh, after fleeing genocide, violence and persecution by Myanmar military in 2017. The United Nations describes Cox’s Bazar as the largest refugee camp in the world.
