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Author: Shaun A Truelove; Orit Abrahim; Chiara Altare; Andrew Azman; Paul B Spiegel
Title: COVID-19: Projecting the impact in Rohingya refugee camps and beyond
  • Document date: 2020_3_30
  • ID: 6njag0dq_23
    Snippet: As in other major epidemics where healthcare capacity and access to it is already limited, major outbreaks like this can easily disrupt an already precarious health system. 23 Diversion of these limited health resources from existing health services, including vaccination, obstetrical care, and emergency care, may cause an increase in mortality due to disease that could normally be treated by the health system; this occurred in the Ebola outbreak.....
    Document: As in other major epidemics where healthcare capacity and access to it is already limited, major outbreaks like this can easily disrupt an already precarious health system. 23 Diversion of these limited health resources from existing health services, including vaccination, obstetrical care, and emergency care, may cause an increase in mortality due to disease that could normally be treated by the health system; this occurred in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa where more people died from malaria than Ebola, and in Eastern DRC, where more people died from measles than Ebola. 24, 25 Such an increase in non-COVID-19 mortality is particularly concerning with the upcoming monsoon season in Bangladesh.

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