Doctors Without Borders warns Bangladesh refugee camps on brink of ‘health disaster’
‘Doctors Without Borders has warned that refugee camps in Bangladesh are on the brink of a “health disaster” amid an influx of Rohingya Muslims from neighboring Myanmar.
Over the past month, nearly 430,000 Rohingya have fled from a brutal army-led crackdown across the border in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. The United Nations has described the crackdown as “ethnic cleansing.”
Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym as MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières), warned on Thursday that waste water and feces were flowing all around the chaotic camps, creating “a public health disaster.”
MSF said to manage the emergency “a massive scale-up of humanitarian aid is needed in Bangladesh.”‘
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