A massive blaze can erupt from mundane activities such as cooking and could send entire communities living in makeshift shelters scrambling for their lives. Know more:
A MASSIVE blaze can erupt from mundane activities such as cooking and could send entire communities living in makeshift shelters scrambling for their lives.
Despite this, they wasted no time in setting up teams that will handle mental health and health promotion in the community. Their mental health team provided psychological first aid to those struggling to come to grips with the fire that razed their homes and caused their loved ones to perish. Another health team, Sotito said, also began working especially in helping those who were injured by the fire.
The situation of the refugees dramatically deteriorated, Sotito said, in the past five years when the Rohingya experienced violence, with their villages razed to the ground and their people killed or sexually abused. The Rohingya fled and close to a million found their way to Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh.
Services include general healthcare, treatment of chronic diseases, such as diabetes and hypertension, emergency care for trauma patients, mental health and women’s healthcare. Sotito said this was despite the presence of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and asthma among the Rohingya. There were also a number of Hepatitis C cases as well as a rise in scabies infections.
Sotito: “There are many problems and there is only so much we can do. The refugees rely mostly on humanitarian aid. It is a difficult life for them, and the health issues are many.”HAVING seen the difficulty of the Rohingya in these camps, Sotito said it is important for the world to again give their people some attention.
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