Global & Disaster Medicine

Volunteer medical team spent 10 days treating patients at 3 Rohingya refugee camps

CBC News

“…..There is an acute shortage of medication. There are not enough medications and life-saving drugs. There are about 90,000 pregnant women and lots of people are arriving every day and people have walked for days in the jungle, for 10 to 14 days, hungry, eating banana leaves on their way then they crossed the border and entered into refugee camps.

There are lots of sick kids, I have seen lots of illnesses that I have not seen in my 18-year medical career. Lots of respiratory illnesses, every other child with pneumonia. There were no diagnostic imaging, no x-rays, no labs that I could do any work-up for them. A horrible situation…….There are about 12 camps total, and there about 70,000 registered people who are living in each camp. There are lots of unregistered people there. They are sharing small tents. I have seen lots of young children … they were naked running around in the streets.

There is a lack of proper washrooms, they need sanitation there. There is a lack of clean water, they have put some drinking water pumps but it’s not enough. It’s very, very poor……”

 


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