Rohingya influx: Fleeing women lack treatment

Rohingya women who entered Bangladesh recently with critical health conditions caused by rape and torture in the Rakhine state in Myanmar continued to suffer having no access to treatment other than local quacks.
Many of them reportedly had miscarriages as pregnant Rohingyas most of whom entered Bangladesh without their husbands were struggling to feed their children and find shelter.
A 30-year old rape victim had to travel on the back of her husband throughout the 12-day journey to Bangladesh from Khyeari Prang village in Myanmar as she could not stand up without help.
Her condition was so critical that people took her for dead as she arrived at Leda makeshift camp a week ago unconscious, unfed for days and barely breathing.
After a slight improvement in the past few days, her condition further deteriorated on Saturday and her husband had to bring her to quack Ataul, 38.
‘I am sure that she was not the victim of black magic, neither was she under the spell of a curse,’ Ataul told New Age after ‘treating’ her. His diagnosis was that she was suffering from mental complications 
Another Rohingya refugee at the camp had a miscarriage three days ago after four months of pregnancy. ‘I have been bleeding ever since,’ she said.
She tried in vain to be treated at the Leda clinic on Saturday morning. 
‘I gave up hope of receiving treatment after waiting for three hours outside Leda clinic,’ she said.
She entered Bangladesh three days ago from Jambuinna in Myanmar with five children and did not know her husband’s whereabouts.
Eight months pregnant Mariam Khatun, 22, entered Bangladesh four days ago after walking for 11 days after her house at Khyeari Prang in Myanmar was set on fire by the Myanmar military. Throughout the journey she ate very little. In Bangladesh, she struggled to get food once a day. 
‘I fear I may not be able to give birth to my child.’
Rohingyas continued to enter Bangladesh fleeing violent military crackdown on the ethnic minority Muslims in Rakhine sate in Myanmar launched following attacks on Myanmar’s border guard police outposts on October 9.
International Organisation for Migration and UN refugee agency UNHCR said on December 6 that over 21,000 Rohingyas had entered Bangladesh since Myanmar military launched a massive operation against the minority Muslims in Maungdaw of the northern Rakhine state following attacks on border outposts of Myanmar’s border guard police on October 9.
Most of the refugees are women and children, Rohingya leaders said.

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