Recent downhill course of Covid-19 at Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh

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ID19550359
AuthorsSakirul Khan (0000-0001-5734-0899, Oita University, corresponding author), Sheikh Mohammad Fazle Akbar (0000-0002-8139-2645, Ehime University), Kazunori Kimitsuki (0000-0002-7203-0466, Oita University), Nobuo Saito (0000-0002-4396-5000, Oita University), Takaaki Yahiro (0000-0003-1094-4497, Oita University), Mamun Al Mahtab (Bangladesh Medical University), Akira Nishizono (0000-0002-1364-4839, Oita University)
Year2021
Volume11
Pages03097-03097
Publication date2021-09-04
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Global Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2047-2978 • E-ISSN: 2047-2986
PublisherInternational Global Health Society (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7189/jogh.11.03097
PMID34552716
OpenAlexW3200493100
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited12

COVID-19 pandemic has widespread impacts on healthcare delivery systems in almost all quarters of human habitations, especially in refugee camps that harbor most unprivileged populations even in more miserable conditions. Rohingya refugees, a Myanmar-based ethnic minority group, are living in Bangladesh for several years. These people are vulnerable to COVID-19 as they live in conditions that disproportionately increase their risk of contagion. As more incidence of COVID-19 is predicted in Rohingya refugee camps, the situation in these camps would be out of control due to lack of hospital beds, oxygen supplies, the absolute absence of intensive care capacities

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Disease · Economic growth · Environmental health · Ethnic group · Geography · Health care · Pandemic · Political science · Refugee · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Virology

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