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2025, Vol. 8, Issue 1, Part C
Health care facilities for Rohingya population in Kutupalong refugee camp

Musaref Hossain, Abu Zafor MD Shaleah, Anamul Haque, MD. Sharif Haider, Chandana Rani Halder, Shabbir Ahmed Khan Nayan, Nahid Farhana and Sipra Mondal

After the influx of Rohingya refugees into Bangladesh, health sectors have been concerned that a challenges of health issues of the refugees especially women, children and elderly would arise. Many health-related issues were occurred such as mental health has deteriorated, food-and water-borne diseases were spread, infectious diseases were emerged, malnutrition is prevalent and reproductive health for women and girls were also at risk. This study was done to assess the health care facilities of Rohingya population of different camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. A cross-sectional study was carried out at Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camps at Ukhiya in Cox’s Bazar among all the Rohingya refugee population living here. The study was conducted during the period from September, 2019 to December, 2019. Systematic random sampling method was used for this study. The samples were selected in a specific pre-determined interval. Following statistical technique, a total of 422 samples were selected for this study. The findings from this study revealed that among all, 37.76% were underweight, 39.84% were stunted and the rest 15.10% were suffering from wasting. A total of 32.18% (124) respondents had eye disease, 41.52% (159) respondents had oral disease, 24.62% (95) respondents had respiratory disease, 43.36% (167) respondents had gastrointestinal disease. There are 80 health sector partners a total of 1.4 million targeted population. A total of 12.97% respondents were very satisfied and 53.60% were satisfied with overall quality of service. From the study findings, it can be recommended that the health service authority should work in a more comprehensive way to increase the level of satisfaction of the respondents.
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Musaref Hossain, Abu Zafor MD Shaleah, Anamul Haque, MD. Sharif Haider, Chandana Rani Halder, Shabbir Ahmed Khan Nayan, Nahid Farhana, Sipra Mondal. Health care facilities for Rohingya population in Kutupalong refugee camp. Int J Adv Res Nurs 2025;8(1):192-196. DOI: 10.33545/nursing.2025.v8.i1.C.462
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