[perthbashi] Médecins Sans Frontières Australia: Rohingya Refugee Crisis

Rohingya refugees fleeing to Bangladesh urgently require medical assistance. View Email Online Over 400,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh and are living in extremely precarious conditions with limited access to medical care.  The majority of the new arrivals are staying in makeshift settlements including three new camps that have emerged. Médecins Sans Frontières is scaling up its response to the crisis and has sent additional nurses, midwives and doctors to respond.  “Our teams in Bangladesh are hearing alarming stories of severe violence against civilians in Northern Rakhine. Reports are that there is significant internal displacement of Rohingya, ethnic Rakhine populations and other minorities. Villages and houses have been burned down, including at least two out of four of Médecins Sans Frontières’ clinics.” says Karline Kleijer, Médecins Sans Frontières emergency desk manager. A second inpatient ward has been setup in the Kutupalong area of Bangladesh to accommodate the increase in patients and Médecins Sans Frontières continues to treat patients with serious violence-related injuries.    Médecins Sans Frontières medical projects in other areas of Myanmar outside of Northern Rakhine continue to operate as usual, including sexual reproductive healthcare and treatment for HIV, tuberculosis and malaria.   As we scale up our response to the crisis, our field projects continue to operate in around 70 countries.  Please consider making a donation today so that our teams can respond to the urgent medical needs of people affected by war, natural disasters, epidemics and disease. Thank you for your ongoing support. Warm regards, Paul McPhun Executive Director Médecins Sans Frontières Australia P.S. If you have made a donation recently I would like to thank you for your generous support. Our work would not be possible without the support of people like you.   Your gift will go towards our work treating patients in around 70 countries. Médecins Sans Frontières Australia engages Vision6, a third-party Australian-based service, to transmit our monthly E-Newsletter, fundraising emails, and invitations to MSFA-related events. Vision6 collect personal information about your use of our supporter communications, for example, click-through rate and unsubscribe rate in order to compile and report statistics back to us. Vision6 uses collected personal information for the sole purpose of preparing reports to help us improve the efficacy of our supporter communications. MSFA takes measures to ensure the privacy of the information included in these reports. Our privacy policy is available at www.msf.org.au/privacy and contains information on how you can access or correct your personal information, who we disclose your personal information to and how you can lodge a complaint. This email address is unmonitored, please instead email office@sydney.msf.org” target=”_blank”>Supporter Relations.

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