Rohingyas struggling to meet basic needs

Rohingyas living in Cox’s Bazar are struggling to meet their basic needs despite massive relief efforts as their camps are severely overcrowded which is obstructing efforts to maintain sustainable water, sanitation and health services, aid workers have said.
Aid workers and Bangladesh government’s office of the refugee relief and repatriation commissioner at a press conference in Cox’s Bazar on Sunday called on world must do its part to protect and assist Rohingyas in Bangladesh.
‘We all are working very hard to address the needs of a large population who have been forced to rely on us for survival,’ said joint statement of refugee relief and repatriation commissioner Mohammad Abul Kalam and Inter Sector Coordination Group senior coordinator Sumbul Rizvi given at press conference.
‘Our most pressing concerns now are the early rains, monsoons and cyclones which represent extreme dangers to those living in camps,’ the statement reads.
ISCG, a combine of United Nation agencies and international aid groups, in an update on Rohingya crisis shows unabated inflow of Rohingyas.
‘It is primarily estimated that about 2,00,000 people in the new camp sites are in grave danger from landslide and flood risks,’ it says. 
‘Averting this risk will require a great deal of relocation of people,’ it adds.
Rapid deforestation of adjoining forest reserves in search of cooking fuel is one of biggest problems for ecological and environmental balance of the entire region, it says.
The group has set up 5,899 water points –– 36 ring wells, 1,174 deep tube wells and 4,689 shallow tube wells –– for the Rohingyas. 
About 1,200 shallow tube wells have become non-functional and replacement is going on.
The group set up 49,502 latrines and 6,635 latrines identified require ‘decommissioning’.
Officials estimated that the new influx increased the number of Myanmar people living in Bangladesh to 11.07 lakh.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net