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The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported chickenpox outbreaks in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, killing 832 people by Jan. 13.
"Health sector partners led by the Ministry of Health (in Bangladesh) and WHO have strengthened surveillance (in the camps) and taken a number of steps," said WHO. in a statement.
Bardan Jong Rana, representative of the World Health Organization in Bangladesh, told the Anatolian agency that "surveillance in the Ruhinga camps has been strengthened" in the context of the crisis itself.
According to the testimonies of the residents of these camps, the number of wounded should exceed the thousand because of the "dirt" of the camps.
"Women and children are most affected by chickenpox," said Ansar Ali, one of the people that the Bengali government has assigned to law enforcement in Ruhinga camps.
"I know that some people from our camp (Kotobalang) are suffering from this disease and have taken it for regular medications," he said.
Since August 25, 2017, Myanmar's armed forces, Buddhist militias have launched a military campaign and brutal killings against Rohingya Muslims in Arakan.
Since then, thousands of Rohingyans have been killed, according to local and international sources, and nearly one million have fled to Bangladesh, according to the United Nations.
The Myanmar government regards the Rohingya as "irregular migrants" from Bangladesh, while the United Nations classifies them as "the most persecuted minority in the world".
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