
Bangladesh
The Cox’s Bazar district on Bangladesh's southeast coast has hosted Rohingya refugees fleeing targeted violence in neighbouring Myanmar's Rakhine state since 1978. The latest campaign of violence, which began in late August 2017, has provoked an unprecedented exodus.
Before August 2017, we had one project in Cox’s Bazar and one in Kamrangirchar, a slum area of the capital, Dhaka. After more than 700,000 Rohingya refugees fled violence in Myanmar from August 2017, we launched additional emergency projects.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are responding to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh.

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Why are we here?


In Cox’s Bazar, the largest refugee camp in the world, MSF manages 10 hospitals and general health centres. Our inpatient and outpatient services include emergency and intensive care, paediatrics, as well as obstetrics and sexual and reproductive healthcare. We also treat victims of sexual violence and patients with non-communicable diseases. Water and sanitation activities are an important part of our efforts to stop the spread of disease and include water trucking and the installation of pumps, wells and latrines.


We run an occupational health programme for people living in the Kamrangirchar slum area of Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka. Many of them work in small factories where they are exposed, without protection, to dangerous machinery and substances. Our teams conducted 10,500 occupational health consultations for factory workers in 2019. We also started running a new mobile health clinic for tannery workers.


Since 25 August 2017, we've treated more than a hundred survivors of sexual violence at our sexual and reproductive health unit in Kutupalong, Cox's Bazar. We also give medical and psychological support to victims of sexual violence and intimate partner violence in Kamrangirchar, a slum area in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka.

We offer reproductive healthcare to adolescent girls in Kamrangirchar. Our services include antenatal consultations and assisting deliveries. People of all ages benefit from our family planning sessions. In Cox’s Bazar, our staff assisted 2,670 births in 2019.


We're supporting government initiatives to expand routine vaccination in the camps. Staff at all our facilities now have the capacity to administer immunisation for measles and rubella, oral polio and tetanus according to national protocols.
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