Poor healthcare, prospects for Rohingya babies in Bangladesh

Aljazeera

by Stefanie Dekker

28 August 2019

Few Rohingya babies are taken to Bangladeshi camp clinics and lack birth certificates when born.

 

Health workers in the world’s largest refugee camp say they’re struggling to provide proper care for babies born to Rohingya women in Bangladesh.

More than 100 babies are born every day in Rohingya refugee camps in southeast Bangladesh.

How the Birth of a Rohingya Baby Overcame Tragedy

reliefweb 
WRITTEN BY BETH ALLEN
Published on 15 Mar 2019

like many moms, Khusida couldn’t wait to meet the baby she had carried for 40 weeks. Her life had been so hard. She and her husband Mohammad had fled violence and bloodshed in Myanmar. Now, they lived with nearly a million other Rohingya refugees in a sprawling camp in neighboring Bangladesh. Life for a Rohingya refugee family, particularly one with a Rohingya baby on the way, was very uncertain.