The perils of pregnancy as a refugee


A Rohingya refugee from Myanmar's Rakhine state holds a baby as she sits in a makeshift shelter after arriving at the Kutupalong refugee camp near the Bagladeshi town of Teknaf on September 5, 2017. -AFP

THERE are about 60 babies born a day in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.

Some 800,000 Rohingya crossed into Bangladesh to flee violence in Myanmar since August last year. They joined about 200,000 Rohingya refugees who had fled previous outbreaks of violence in their home country.

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RM13.90/month
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RM12.33/month

Billed as RM148.00/year

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