Rohingya: How should Canada respond to a forgotten humanitarian crisis?

Join us on March 21 to learn more about this crisis and how you can support MSF in our advocacy

A staff meeting at the MSF healthcare centre in Jamtoli camp for Rohingya refugees, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. On average, more than 400 patients seek treatment at this facility every day. Here, MSF provides emergency room and outpatient care, maternity, mental health and health promotion services. A crucial component of MSF’s medical activities is community outreach, which includes supporting pregnant women through prenatal and postnatal care, encouraging births in the facility, and ensuring patients continue to seek medication and treatment in our facilities. Patients who require hospitalisation are referred to MSF hospitals in Cox’s Bazar. MSF remains one of the main organisations providing inpatient services for paediatric, neonatal and adult patients. However, there is a need for increased provision of good quality 24-hour surgical capacity, comprehensive obstetric and neonatal care, paediatric services and mental healthcare. Many Rohingya lived through traumatic experiences while fleeing the violence in Myanmar. This, together an uncertain future and a lack of employment opportunities can affect their well-being. MSF is one of the few organisations providing comprehensive mental healthcare to the Rohingya and local Bangladeshi communities through psychologists, psychiatrists, counsellors and community mental health educators.

Rohingya: How should Canada respond to a forgotten humanitarian crisis?

Join us on March 21 to learn more about this crisis and how you can support MSF in our advocacy

As an MSF supporter, you are part of a global movement committed to providing care for people who need it most. We want to extend this opportunity for you to learn more about how MSF is supporting the Rohingya people facing humanitarian crisis in Bangladesh and Myanmar and what you can do to help.

Venue: University of Ottawa, Room 4007, Faculty of Social Sciences Building (online option available)

Address: 120 University Private, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5

Date: Thurs., March 21, 2024

Time: 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. EDT

Speakers

The event will be hosted by Jason Nickerson, MSF’s humanitarian representative to Canada, and will see presentations from four panelists:

MSF’s regional advisor for Southeast Asia and one of the authors of an upcoming MSF report on the situation Rohingya patients and their communities face, as seen from MSF’s perspective as a provider of humanitarian medical care in Bangladesh, Myanmar and Malaysia.

Jason Mills

A writer, journalist and democracy advocate who fled Myanmar as a Rohingya refugee in 2013, spending time in India, China and Indonesia before arriving in Canada. John recently completed a fellowship with Parliamentary Centre, an Ottawa-based nonprofit.

John Jonaid

A Canadian midwife who recently returned from working with MSF in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, where MSF teams provide essential healthcare for Rohingya in displacement camps. Shanika is currently doing her master’s in public health at the University of Ottawa.

Shanika Thomas

A professor of law and director of the University of Ottawa’s Human Rights Research and Education Centre. John has been working on issues Rohingya are facing since 1992 in his role as an advisor for international organizations and global multilateral agencies, which has included a significant focus on conflict prevention and protection of human rights.

John Packer

The event is also an opportunity for you to watch the award-winning animated short film Lost at Sea, which looks at the harsh reality faced by Rohingya as they embark on perilous journeys in search of safety, and Out of Fear, a 28-minute documentary based on Rohingya youth testimonies, highlighting the blatant despair and lack of perspectives this new generation is growing up in.

 

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