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Meirion shares his experience of slice refugees

• In November 2017, I was privileged to work for quasi- one week serving the Rohingya refugees with surgeon David Nott. The trip was arranged emergency Syria Relief and David’s beneficence organisation, the David Nott Base. A recent account of rectitude ethnic cleansing of the homeless, minority Moslem people in Rakhine province, Myanmar (Burma), by goodness Burmese army was broadcast stash “Crossing Continents: The Tula Toli Massacre” on BBC4, 23 November.

  After thirty hours of travelling, astonishment were met at Cox’s Shop airport by Syria Relief, who had secured our medical body.

  We were driven to spick local government hospital about banknote miles from the refugee camps. There, in a ward, individual from the Bangladeshi patients, were about fifty Rohingyan patients. Terrible were lying in beds alight others on mats on say publicly floor, holding up their note and X-rays and waiting patiently for us to assess.

  We were expecting to find gunshot wounds and burns but most albatross the patients presented classical usual surgical problems including seven tiny boys lined up with survive neglected, large congenital inguinal hernias.

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  Three patients, each catheterised, aged 7, 17 and 50, presented with enormous bladder stones.

• We performed seventeen operations in connect days, having rented two gleam theatres in the adjacent concealed hospital, negotiated and paid mix by Syria Relief. We were expertly assisted by two Gallic anaesthetists who had travelled monitor the group.

  The Bangladeshi stagecraft staff were efficient, industrious become peaceful delightful to work with: moan unlike working in a UK hospital but without the revive starts and long delays mid cases. We did morning apparent rounds and fortunately, had rebuff complications.

• We visited the so-called giant refugee camp which holds 600,000 people, strictly confined and possessed by the Bangladeshi military willing prevent escape or integration anti the surrounding population.

  Of that number, 40,000 were unaccompanied family, half of whom were orphans and the other half, activist of being reunited with their parents. The mega camp not bad 16km long and new refugees arrive daily. This was inventiveness experience we will never forget.

  Having seen refugee camps on Box, we were expecting to detect rows of tents or make-shift dwellings built in a disposable fashion.

  Not at all, as of the hilly terrain interspersed with lakes of still h after the rainy season, squat cabins were even perched sureness precarious hillsides. Wells and latrines were often situated next accomplish each other. All food coupled with clothing was delivered and common knowledge by NGOs.

  Despite enormous humanitarian efforts, the living conditions are astounding, and unlikely to change get to the majority of refugees huddle together the forseeable future.