Covid-19 and Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh

While vaccines are being administered, World Health Organization's (WHO) recommendations for staying in quarantine, isolation, maintaining social distance, and lockdown are only measures available to combat Covid-19 at the moment. The Rohingyas are not same as other ordinary people, primarily b...

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Published in:Intellectual discourse 2020-01, Vol.28 (2), p.793-806
Main Authors: Ullah, Ahsan, Hossain, Mallik Akram, Chattoraj, Diotima
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Health services
Pandemics
Population
Refugee camps
Refugees
Rohingya people
Sanitation
Social distancing
Statelessness
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Summary:While vaccines are being administered, World Health Organization's (WHO) recommendations for staying in quarantine, isolation, maintaining social distance, and lockdown are only measures available to combat Covid-19 at the moment. The Rohingyas are not same as other ordinary people, primarily because they have either experienced or witnessed most heart-wrenching brutal treatment and were denied basic services like health, education, employment and gross human rights violation (Ullah, 2013; Bogic, Njoku, & Priebe, 2015; Ullah & Chattoraj, 2018; Cernea & McDowell, 2000). Objectives and methodology The main objective of the paper is to look into how the Rohingya population in refugee camps in Bangladesh handles the long-term potential health impact of Covid-19. Each of the shacks in camps is barely 10 square meters (107 square feet) and most of them are overcrowded with up to 12 members (Ullah, 2011; Kreichauf, 2018). [...]jam-packed camps with substandard healthcare and inadequate access to proper sanitation have made the Rohingyas incredibly vulnerable to this virus attack (Nortajuddin, 2020).
ISSN:0128-4878