: A hospital near Bangladesh’s southeastern border has become overcrowded with dozens of Rohingya refugees who arrived with bullet wounds and broken bones after fleeing violence in western Myanmar.
By Monday, doctors were able to treat and release three men and a teenage boy, who with nowhere to go ended up squatting behind Cox’s Bazar Sadar Hospital. They carried little with them aside from a few bed sheets and plastic bags holding personal documents. They had arrived at the hospital with 27 others, all of them “distressed and afraid” and telling stories about soldiers opening fire randomly on their villages in western Myanmar on Aug 26-27, according to the resident medical officer Dr Shaheen Abdur Rahman Choudhury.
The hospital, already “hugely overburdened,” was expecting to receive more wounded refugees in coming days. “What we are seeing is the tip of the iceberg,” Choudhury said.