Around 62 percent of water available to households of the Rohingya camps in Cox’s bazar is contaminated with the possibility of having high levels of E.coli, according to the latest figures from the World Health Organization (WHO).
Unicef spokesperson Christophe Boulierac came up with this data on Tuesday at the regular press briefing in Geneva, Unicef reported.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) is working with authorities in Bangladesh to urgently investigate “high levels of E.coli contamination” in water drawn from wells inside the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar.
“We are also concerned over an increase in cases of acute watery diarrhoea (AWD), which have included several deaths,” he added.
Between 25 August and November 11 this year, a total of 36,096 AWD cases were reported, including 10 related deaths — 42 percent or 15,206 of which were children under the age of five.
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