More than 650,000 Rohingya people have entered Bangladesh from Myanmar and are living in temporary shelters on muddy hills with little access to proper healthcare and sanitation.
Much of the population of the camps have been battling Diphtheria with other epidemics possibly around the corner.
Elizabeth Quelch, a nurse with Samaritan’s Purse who visited Bangladesh to help, said: “They are so tightly packed together; they live in very close quarters so if one person gets Cholera…it’s very easily spread.”
During the monsoon season (March-June), people often have to leave their homes because of flash floods but also disease can cause some of the bigger problems.
The charity set up a Diphtheria clinic in the camp and are working there 24 hours a day and are also working with a local medical missionary hospital by building two extra wards.
Elizabeth Quelch explained why they decided to support the wards: “As people are coming across from Myanmar, they are coming across with complex surgical needs and the camp wasn’t really able to provide that surgery for them, that life-saving surgery, so we’ve built these wards which have increased the hospital capacity.”
Franklin Graham, the President of Samaritan’s Purse, recently visited the camps where he pledged funds to help complete the hospital facility.
Graham said in a statement: “God’s got this hospital…
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