eUN Connection: Supporting refugee camps in Rohingya

This article was written by Humanity Auxilium founder, Fozia Alvi for the eUN Connection newsletter for October 2020:

Humanity Auxilium supports medical clinics on the ground, besides sending doctors from the US and Canada on medical missions. This year, with COVID, most are unable to travel, [which led us to] start a virtual platform to train doctors on the ground and share our medical expertise with them.

They planned for a 10-bed COVID-19 center, but while being implemented found that only 10% of the current isolation center capacity has been filled in camps, as the Rohingya people don’t go to hospitals when they get sick. The need was raised by the World Health Organization (WHO) to start mobile teams. Humanity Auxilium initiated this project, got approval, and are implementing this now.

Humanity Auxilium is sending mobile teams consisting of one doctor, one nurse, and a social worker in different areas of the camps. They are going to provide medicines, food, etc. In 2 months time, they expect to see the
effectiveness of this project and will decide if they will continue this.

Humanity Auxilium is working with Turkish Red Crescent and BD Red Crescent on the ground. Dr. Fozia Alvi and Dr. Mohsina Chaklader are planning to do a research project with the mobile team project. Dr. Chaklader is the medical lead and a Gastroenterologist in Toronto.

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