It has been three years since WHO deployed the first humanitarians to provide immediate aid and relief to the Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, running from the Rakhine State, in Myanmar. “I was one of the first humanitarians arriving in Cox’s Bazar, in early September 2017.
It is difficult to describe the situation in words, as I saw thousands of people standing on both sides of the road asking for food, health care and shelter.
In some places, they had built improvised shelters but they still didn’t have food or water nor proper sanitation facilities.
On top of that, it was raining heavily”, recalls Dr Md Khadimul Mazhar, WHO Consultant for Outbreak investigation. Dr Mazhar in the first year of the health emergency response, in Cox’s