Humanitarian disaster for Rohingya refugees: impending natural hazards and worsening public health crises.

Bayes Ahmed,Ibrahim Abubakar,Rita Issa,Peter Sammonds,Delan Devakumar,Rachel Burns,Miriam Orcutt

doi:10.1016/s2214-109x(18)30125-6

Abstract

Humanitarian disaster for Rohingya refugees: impending natural hazards and worsening public health crises.

Highlights

The Rohingya people are the world’s largest stateless population.[1]
The likelihood of a public health emergency from infectious diseases is high in this vulnerable population, with already very low vaccination coverage, high prevalence of malnutrition,[6] and poor sanitation and water conditions
Vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles, polio, and tetanus are on the increase and diphtheria has recently re-emerged

Summary

Introduction

The Rohingya people are the world’s largest stateless population.[1]. Violence towards the Rohingya in Myanmar from late August, 2017, caused the mass displacement[2] of 655 000 people from Rakhine State of Myanmar to the southeastern hilly region of Bangladesh, resulting in what UNOCHA describes as the “fastest growing refugee crisis in the world”.3 The majority are residing in overcrowded temporary shelters, with Cox’s Bazar and Bandarban hosting one of the densest concentrations of refugees; there are 954 500 people in total at the time of writing.[4]. Humanitarian disaster for Rohingya refugees: impending natural hazards and worsening public health crises

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