30th Jul 2021
Picture: Providing treatment for patients as parts of CARE's COVID-19 response at Cox's Bazar. Credit: CARE Bangladesh
Humanitarian organisation CARE is opening a 40-bed COVID isolation centre in a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh on 1 August 2021. With the country currently in the grip of its most severe COVID surge since the pandemic began, and monsoon flooding forcing many Rohingya refugees to shelter in communal facilities, the centre comes at a critical time.
Ram Das, CARE Bangladesh Deputy Country Director - Humanitarian, said, “The needs are huge and the isolation centre will enable us to isolate mild cases from the rest of the community in the densely populated camps.”