Monsoon Season Could Wreak Havoc on Refugee Camps in Bangladesh-ENG

Since August 25, 2017, nearly 700,000 Rohingya have fled targeted violence and persecution in Myanmar to take refuge in makeshift shelters in camps in Bangladesh. Now they are threatened by the approaching monsoon season.

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF224709

Date taken / Date Recorded 29/01/2018 12:00 AM

Country Bangladesh

Commissioning section MSF-UNITED STATES

Photographer / videographer / producer Anna Surinyach

Usage Rights (MSF) External Media, MSF Publications, Social Media

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Duration 2m14s

Maximum Size 1280px × 720px 113.90 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist My name is Kate Nolan. I'm an emergency coordinator for MSF. We're here in the Jamtoli makeshift settlement, located in Cox's Bazar district in Bangladesh.

TEXT: Since August 25, 2017, nearly 700,000 Rohingya have fled targeted violence and persecution in Myanmar.

You can see that right now the weather is dry. We're coming to the end of the cool, dry season. But soon we will be coming into monsoon season when we expect that there will be a lot of heavy winds and rain.

So, here, people are living in makeshift shelters that are constructed from pieces of bamboo and plastic sheeting. We're concerned that when the monsoon season arrives, structures like this will not be able to stand up to very strong winds and rains.

You can see that people are living very high up in hills, very densely populated, living very close together. There's also not a lot of vegetation. So, when heavy rains arrive, we're concerned about soil erosion and potential mud and landslides.

Latrines like this were constructed in the early days of the emergency. Now the latrines are becoming full.

Strong winds, rains, and mudslides could destroy the latrines, exposing all of the contents, which can be running into peoples homes and into close-by water points.

You can see here how close-by these houses are and this water point to the latrine we were just at.

TEXT: Water contamination can lead to outbreaks of water-borne diseases, like acute watery diarrhea

MSF is focusing on preparing medical supplies needed for communicable disease outbreaks. We are also preparing construction materials to make sure that if any of our health structures are damaged, we have the ability to repair them straight away to ensure that we can continue to provide emergency medical services for the people in need.