The United Nations launched one of its biggest ever cholera vaccination drives in the vast refugee camps of southeast Bangladesh on Tuesday amid fears of an outbreak among nearly a million Rohingya now living in the country.
Thousands of Rohingya men and women lined up in intense heat at makeshift health centres on Tuesday, many with young children in their arms, to receive the oral vaccine against the disease.
The UN is working with the Bangladesh government to vaccinate 650, 000 people living in the sprawling camps against cholera, which spreads through dirty water and can kill if left untreated.
Source: Indian Express