Rohingya refugees queue for food aid in Bangladesh camps

by Radyo La Verdad | October 9, 2017 (Monday) | 1367

Rohingya women at the crowded Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar were queuing up on Saturday outside a makeshift doctor’s office waiting for their sick babies to be examined.

Meanwhile, further in the forests of Rezu Amtali, near the border with Myanmar, hundreds of women lined up for blankets and milk formula.

Aid agencies have warned of a malnutrition crisis in Bangladesh as thousands are in urgent need of food, including 145-thousand children under five and more than 50-thousand pregnant and breast-feeding women.

Cholera is a risk, amid fears of disease spreading in camps where aid workers are trying to install sanitation systems, the world health organisation said.

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