‘Life is meaningless’: despair for Rohingya refugees as chronic illness blights camps

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‘Life is meaningless’: despair for Rohingya refugees as chronic illness blights camps

People who fled genocide in Myanmar for the world’s biggest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, are finding their lives devastated by diseases such as cancer and diabetesThe tumours that kept growing in her chest were cut out three times before Noor Saimun, a Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh, was tested for cancer. By the time it was diagnosed, the cancer had spread from her breast throughout her body.Saimun now spends her days incapacitated …