Doctors from UAE and Bangladesh treat thousands of Rohingya

[N]THE NATIONAL
Feb 16, 2019

Sheikha Fatima campaign is stepping up efforts to support the refugees

 

Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. UAE doctors are providing medical aid to them. Cathal McNaughton / Reuters 

 

Efforts have been stepped up by the UAE to help thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

Thousands of refugees are living in squalid camps near the Bangladeshi border town of Cox's Bazar, after escaping violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

Now under the aegis of the Sheikha Fatima Global Humanitarian Campaign, doctors from the UAE and Bangladesh are helping to treat women and children.

Teams use mobile clinics and field hospitals to provide better diagnostic, treatment and preventive services that contribute to easing hardships faced by these vulnerable communities.

The Rohingya are Muslim and many in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar view them as illegal immigrants. Hundreds of thousands have fled to Bangladesh after a military crackdown by Myanmar troops.

Myanmar's army has denied any wrongdoing and rejected UN allegations of genocide.