Tag: Rohingya

Bangladesh: MSF sees severe spike in arrivals of war-wounded Rohingya from Myanmar

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Escalating numbers of Rohingya people with violence-related injuries have crossed the border into Bangladesh over the past week, says Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), indicating the worsening humanitarian crisis in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. In the four days leading up to Aug. 7, MSF teams in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, treated 39 people for violence-related injuries. […]

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Flash Quote: Bangladesh Scabies Follow-up

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Refugee from Rohingya talking with MSF's medical assistant, Robiul Awal, in a healthcare setting.

Nearly 40 percent of people in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh have scabies according to the results of a prevalence survey conducted by the health sector in May. In some camps this figure is as high as 70 percent. This reflects what Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has seen in our clinics where we’ve conducted […]

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