“The pump works, however the water stinks, so we don’t drink it,” the Rohingya girl stated within the squalid camp the place her household of 11 has lived since fleeing Myanmar a fortnight in the past.
The UN has warned of a humanitarian “nightmare” unfolding in Bangladesh’s refugee camps, the place half one million folks have taken shelter after fleeing violence in Myanmar in unprecedented waves.
With a scarcity of fresh water and bogs, assist staff say a significant well being catastrophe is imminent.
Heavy monsoon rain is compounding the danger of illness outbreak, with subject docs reporting an enormous spike in circumstances of extreme diarrhoea, particularly amongst youngsters.
The close to every day torrential downpours ship streams dashing by means of areas the place tens of hundreds brazenly defecate on daily basis. For some, this murky runoff is their solely supply of consuming water.
A stench of excreta hangs within the air on the outskirts of Kutupalong, a camp that already housed tens of hundreds of refugees earlier than the newest inflow noticed it mushroom right into a fetid tent metropolis stretching for miles.
At a subject clinic, an extended queue of refugees ready to see the one physician out there stretched past the tent into the pouring rain.
Dr Alamul Haque sees upwards of 400 sufferers a day and regarded exhausted as he described the spiralling variety of youngsters presenting with water-borne sicknesses.
