Recent downhill course of COVID-19 at Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh: Urgent action solicited

COVID-19 pandemic has widespread impacts on healthcare delivery systems in almost all quarters of human habitations, especially in refugee camps that harbor most unprivileged populations even in more miserable conditions. Rohingya refugees, a Myanmar-based ethnic minority group, are living in Bangladesh for several years. These people are vulnerable to COVID-19 as they live in conditions that disproportionately increase their risk of contagion. As more incidence of COVID-19 is predicted in Rohingya refugee camps, the situation in these camps would be out of control due to lack of hospital beds, oxygen supplies, the absolute absence of intensive care capacities. © 2021. Journal of Global Health. All rights reserved.