Tuesday, February 26, 2019
12:00pm – 1:30pm
McKinney Conference Rm, 111 Thayer St
Rohingya were not recognized as one of the Myanmar's 135 ethnic groups. They don’t exist in their record, making them abandoned from all healthcare facilities. Recent humanitarian crisis including extrajudicial killing, rape and arson made their situation more vulnerable. As an unrecognized ethnic group in Myanmar, Rohingyas don’t have any data; their disease pattern and health care challenges are yet to be studied. This project aims to identify specific disease distribution among displaced Rohingya in Bangladesh which will include communicable and non-communicable diseases, malnutrition, trauma, and comorbidities among them which will provide invaluable information to tailor their medical challenges.