International Organization for Migration (IOM) has
inaugurated a 33-room inpatient hospital to boost the health services for
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh’s camps this week.
Our correspondent said health services in Bangladesh’s
Rohingya refugee camps were boosted this week when the UN Migration Agency, IOM
opened two major new health facilities.
The 33-room inpatient hospital has been constructed on
the site of a former clinic built from bamboo during the height of the 2017
Rohingya refugee crisis.
Another health post will serve one of the most
over-crowded parts of the refugee camps.
Almost one million Rohingya are sheltering in Cox’s
Bazar. The new IOM facilities will support the government of Bangladesh to
provide primary health care and boost maternity, paediatric, and mental health
services for thousands of people from the Rohingya refugee and local
communities.
A Rohingya refugee leader from the camp said to Arakan
Times that it was an opportunity for Rohingya refugees including local
communities to receive treatment free of cost from the hospital built by IOM.
We are very happy and thanks to IOM for constructing such
a hospital where the Rohingya refugees can get treated, said a Rohingya woman.
Source: AT