Arakan News Agency
A Rohingya girl died after drinking contaminated and unclean water on the coast of Nakhandia, where she and her family were among the thousands of Rohingya families fleeing organized ethnic cleansing campaigns in Myanmar.
In the absence of clean water sources, thousands of children and women are forced to drink dirty and unclean water, causing multiple health problems, mostly intestinal effects leading to paralysis and death.
Local activists confirmed that the Rohingyas are stranded in the border areas and facing serious difficulties to obtain a safe clean drinking water to ensure their safety; dozens of children have serious health effects of chronic diarrhea and poisoning at various degrees, waiting for death.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has not played a significant role until now in order to save hundreds of thousands of children and women, and the Myanmar authorities have not allowed relief organizations to enter the help internally displaced.
Rights activists called on states and influential organizations to intervene urgently to end the plight of tens of thousands of stranded people who could not settle in their homeland or cross the border into camps in the neighboring country of Bangladesh as they remained stranded by the fierce trio of hunger, thirst and disease.
