Tuesday 19 September 2017

Cox Bazar: Chaos all around at Rohingya camps


Hundreds of Rohingya, including children, were jostling to get hold of aid packages being thrown from trucks at Balukhali in the Bangladeshi city of Cox's Bazar bordering Myanmar.

Highlighting the grave conditions for Rohingya refugees, aid agencies reported on September 15 that at least two children and one woman were killed in a stampede that broke out as aid was being distributed.

On Sunday, police and army officials were checking vehicles coming from the camps towards Cox's Bazar city, a day after the Bangladesh government announced restrictions on the refugees' movement.

"We are trying to expand our activities and build new clinics and health posts to give basic access to healthcare, but at the end of the day everything is slowed down by the infrastructure and logistic challenges," said Robert Onus, emergency coordinator at Doctors Without Borders (MSF).

Misada Saif, spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), told Al Jazeera: "It's a huge crisis and beyond the capacity of many international organisations working on the ground.

UCJ, UNILORIN.

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