India, Aug. 26 -- Rohingya children are arriving at hospitals later and with more severe physical and psychological conditions as shrinking humanitarian funding weakens health care, nutrition and protection services across the refugee camps.
Hospitals Struggle With Rising Severe Cases
Nine years after Rohingya families fled violence in Myanmar, children make up more than half of the 1.3 million refugees living in Cox's Bazar. Doctors Without Borders, or MSF, says reduced primary health care and referral services are placing increasing pressure on Kutupalong Hospital.
The facility is treating growing numbers of critically ill children and newborns, with severe illness, chronic malnutrition and mental distress increasingly occurring togeth...