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In the early months of the emergency, medical organizations and the Bangladeshi Ministry of Health responded to various epidemics, due to low immunization coverage and limited access to routine vaccines and care in Rohingya, in Rakhine State in Myanmar. Since August 2017, MSF teams have treated 6,547 people with diphtheria and 4,885 people with measles. Although they represent just 1% of our overall consultations, the rapid response to these outbreaks was crucial. Since then, several vaccination campaigns against diphtheria, measles and cholera have been carried out.
In any emergency situation involving mbadive population displacement, the first thing to do is to vaccinate against measles as it is a recurring illness. The emergence of diphtheria was more difficult because epidemics were rare and most of our medical staff had to learn to treat them from scratch.
Today, camp residents are better protected against epidemics and our teams continue to carry out routine vaccinations, but the risk still exists. In recent weeks, for example, we have treated several hundred cases of chicken pox, a rare disease in South Asia. It can lead to complications for pregnant women or when the person who catches it also suffers from other diseases.
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