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Diarrhea Claims Three Infants in Teknaf Makeshift Refugee Camp
Teknaf, May 23:
Three infants have so far died of diarrhea at Teknaf
Makeshift Burmese Rohingya refugee camp (unofficial
refugee camp), said Ibrahim, reporter of Kaladan Press Network.
Diarrhea broke out in an alarming at Teknaf
refugee camp from the beginning of this month, but the diarrhea patients could
not be admitted to any health complex, he further added.
Those who have died so far are Hussain
Ahmed, 1- year, son of Mohammed Ayub, Matiur Rahman, 3 months, son of Sayed Hussain and Asma Begum, 5 months, daughter of Abdul Malek.
They all died of diarrhea within 6 days (from15 to
The sweltering heat and the use of unhygienic latrines
cause the outbreak of the disease, said a quack doctor of the refugee
camp.
“We are unable to provide necessary medical facilities to
the patients due to acute scarcity of IV saline and other essential medicines,”
the quack doctor further added.
It may be recalled that on
An estimated 970 undocumented Rohingya
refugee families, numbering about 7,000 people, have been living in this makeshift huts for more than two years after they were
dragged and driven out of their shelters among the locals, during an operation
in 2002.
The authorities had herded them together in this
place where they were living under open sky without any help from anyone. After
some time, the refugees themselves started building makeshift huts on their own
initiative.
Unfortunately, these hapless and helpless souls are
not even documented as refugees by the authorities concerned.
Further more, the cyclonic storm over northwest Bay
that crossed the Cox’s Bazar coast on 19th
May afternoon also damaged this makeshift refugee camp.
It may be mentioned here that on
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