THREE ON GOING EPIDEMICS AMONG REFUGEES AND MIGRANTS IN VELIKA KLADUŠA: FLU, ENTEROCOLITIS AND TOOTHACHE
As temperature falls, health problems of refugees and migrants population increase. Our Volunteer Medical Team (VMT) reports about new 56 cases of patients in only few hours that were seeking medical help from VMT today. Thirty of them came because of wounds and different skin conditions (120 wounds were treated today), 15 new flu cases (5 more than yesterday - total number of flu infected patients is close to hundred in one week, that is between 20 to 33% of inhabitants of wild camp Trnovi). Some of flu infected are also with respiratory problems (let me remind you that this year we already had death of refugee because of pneumonia), then 8 patients came because of toothache (yesterday 5 patients had toothache) and additional 3 enterocolitis cases today. Among the wounds, the number of burns increases (yesterday one, today three).
Ones who receive high daily allowances for a year to protect migrants have not been able to date to do the winterization of the camp Trnovi in Velika Kladuša, BiH. We expect further deterioration in the health of the migrant population (defined as specially vulnerable in humanitarian texts) and possibly new fatalities. Every responsible humanitarian worker would immediately declare a state of humanitarian emergency in these conditions.
Dimitar Anakiev, MD GP and Global Health spec.
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