Today, in only couple of hours, 53 refugees and migrants were seeking help from the volunteer’s medical team (VMT) of S.O.S. Ljuta Krajina in Velika Kladuša. Thirty of them needed help for different injuries and skin condition while 23 refugees and migrants came with symptoms of flu. Medical volunteers of S.O.S. started reporting about flu epidemic from the last Friday (23.11.) when first ten refugees and migrants came to them with the symptoms of flu. From Friday each of next days about ten new patients visited our medical volunteer with the flu symptoms but today the number of new flu infected patient increased to 23 on the daily base. No need to say that most of the flu infected patients came from the wild camp Trnovi (not winterized) where they sleep on the ground of wetland covered often only with polyvinyl. Also no need to say that you will not find information on epidemic in the reports about healthcare of refugees and migrants composed by UN agencies. Partly the reason for this silence is in non-existence of proper humanitarian or regular health service for refugees and migrants in BiH (so the documentation and information are generally missing), partly the reason lies in concealing style of reporting practicing by UN agencies in BiH. Until now no one of epidemic that occurred in Velika Kladuša camps were reported in public including very heavy epidemic of gastroenteritis that has arisen this August when 2/3 of the camp Trnovi (approximately about 300 people) were suffering from vomiting and diarrhea (many of them went to toilet more than 20 times per day) but this dramatic medical event did not find its place in any official report. (photography: S.O.S. volunteers in medical action in Telakić street of Velika Kladuša, BiH)
Dimitar Anakiev, MD
GP and Global Health spec.
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