The UN International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) attracted attention to the fact that more than 15 percent of more than 500 thousand children in Coke Bazar camps, where Muslim-Rokhini (Arakan Muslims) in Bangladesh are malnourished.
The representative of the Unisef in Bangladesh Flawers wound made assessments at the weekly press conference of the United Nations (UN) department in Geneva.
emphasizing that children in the camps where Arakan refugees in Cox-Bazar live more from malnutrition, Flauers said: “Children in the world’s largest refugee camp are experiencing the worst level of malnutrition from the moment of the massive movement in 2017. In February, the number of medical attention due to more than 27 percent compared to more than 27 percent of With the same month of last year, in just one month of this year, more than 38 children under the age of 5 were received for emergency treatment. “
Stressing that the Musson season in 2024 lasted a month longer than usual, Flawers added that this situation exacerbates the current unhealthy conditions and causes epidemics among children.
According to her, the organizations of financing are experiencing a global financing crisis: “This situation forces the organization to provide humanitarian aid to resort to urgent measures to protect access to the most basic elements of life. Further reduction of the lips can bring families to extreme despair, increase tension and instability in overflowing camps.”
She noted that more than 500,000 children live in Cox -Bazar camps, more than 15 percent of them are now suffering from malnutrition – this is a threshold of emergency.
More than 1 million people live in Cox-Bazar camps
As a result of violence in the Arakan region in Myanmar in 2017, Arakan Muslims were forced to look for refuge in Bangladesh. In the same year, the visit of the wife of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Emine Erdogan to the refugee camps attracted the attention of the world community to this event.
After the resettlement of more than 1 million Muslim-Rokhini, they try to survive in 22 refugees camps created in the vicinity of the city of Cox-Bazar.