COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh: Bangladesh’s refugee camps are on the brink of a “public health disaster,” Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has warned, saying filthy water and faeces flow through shanties now bursting with Rohinyga Muslims who have fled violence in Myanmar. Meanwhile in Bangladesh, there are dire shortages of nearly all forms of relief in what has become one of the world’s largest refugee settlements. “That’s very rare among adults, and signals that a public health emergency could be just around the corner.”There are no official roads into the slum-like settlements that have sprung up outside official camps, complicating aid delivery in the hilly, mud-slicked terrain. A Rohingya refugee child crawls through mud in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, September 21, 2017. Even before the latest exodus, Bangladesh was already housing some 300,000 Rohingya refugees who had fled from previous waves of persecution.

Source: New Strait Times September 22, 2017 08:48 UTC