Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 13-10-2017
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says new latrines will be constructed in the Rohingya camps and settlements of Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district to provide sanitation coverage to some 250,000 people, averting a major disease outbreak.
UNICEF and the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief of Bangladesh agreed that the Bangladesh Armed Forces Division will construct 10,000 latrines in Cox’s Bazar as quickly as possible at a total cost of $1.5 million.
Edouard Beigbeder the UNICEF Representative in Bangladesh who signed a work plan with Joint Secretary Muhammad Habibul Kabir Chowdhury at the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief says reports of water-borne diseases from the health centres in the camps have already emerged.
“Disease outbreak is a real and present danger for the camp dwellers and host population. We immediately need to step up sanitation coverage there.”
UNICEF says it will provide financial and technical support to the ministry in this public health undertaking, including through its water, sanitation and hygiene sector partners.
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