Healthcare In The Rohingya Refugee Camps: A DICE And PGF Project Update
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The end of April brought us to the near-halfway point of the completion of our PGF Cohort E (Postgraduate Fellowship Programme in Refugee & Migrant Health) Programme, and our DICE Cohort B (Doctors Worldwide Improving Care in Health Emergencies) Programme, with a total of 98 participants enrolled across both these projects for 2021. Due to the surge in COVID-19 cases, lockdown restrictions have meant all teaching has transitioned online. Despite these challenges, PGF shadowing, and DICE site visits continue, led for a brief time by Dr Indranil Das, an Emergency Medicine specialist from India who co-facilitated our Triage and Acute Care Module for the PGF project.
Rohingya Camp Fire Eyewitness Account: 11 Deaths, 300 Missing
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On the 21st March, our Doctors Worldwide team was in the Camp 9 Clinic in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, visiting IOM colleagues to discuss our emergency care project. Less than 24 hours later, on the 22nd March, the entire structure and surrounding area had been destroyed by a devastating fire.
The Rohingya Camp Fire: “just call if you start sending anyone, we are ready.”
Hours after the starting of the fire, our phones were flooded with messages and updates of the large, well-organised response at hand by Rohingya and Bangladeshi first responders, ready to support their colleagues for what was at the time an unknown understanding of the scale of injuries and deaths they may be responding to. Our Bangladeshi colleagues – of those we’ve previously trained and continue to stay in touch with – sent supporting messages to each other in our Whatsapp group: “just call if you start sending anyone, we are ready
Training 100+ Healthcare Workers In The Rohingya Refugee Camps
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Doctors Worldwide have been active in Bangladesh since November 2017 responding to the Rohingya Crisis, in partnership with the UN-IOM. Since then, we have delivered core capacity building and mentoring programmes in Primary Care and Emergency Care for Bangladeshi healthcare workers working in the Rohingya camps and surrounding host communities.
One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the need to support frontline healthcare workers is more important than ever. Especially in Bangladesh, when the field of emergency care is still under-developed, healthcare workers in refugee camps are in need of specialised training and mentorship in order to ensure the quality of healthcare provided is up to a high standard.
1 May 2021
Medical Faculty Required for April - July deployment to Bangladesh
Interviews are being conducted on a rolling basis
About DWW: Doctors Worldwide is a specialist medical charity based in the UK with a mission to support and collaborate with local communities to build and sustain quality healthcare services in both development and emergency settings. Over the last 19 years we have delivered over 95 medical projects, responded to 13 humanitarian crises and worked in 25 different countries. Together we have impacted more than 3 million lives and counting. Access to quality healthcare is not a privilege, it is a human right, and we work towards making that a reality, especially for the most vulnerable communities.
Program/Project Management Job in Bangladesh about Education and Health, requiring 5-9 years of experience, from Doctors Worldwide; closing on 02 Feb 2021