Bangladesh on Saturday reopened a Turkish field hospital at the
Rohingya refugee camp which was damaged by a fire last year
The hospital daily performs 20 operations and examines 2,000
people, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said during his speech at the
opening ceremony in Bangladesh’s southeastern city of Cox's Bazar.
After being destroyed in the fire, the hospital was
reconstructed by the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD)
upon the instruction of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Noting that Turkey took "immediate" action to heal the
wounds of the fire, Soylu said: "We couldn't leave these sad, oppressed
people alone as well as Bangladesh, which is home to these people."
He added that 700,000 treatments have been carried out in the
hospital so far.
The Turkish interior minister is also set to meet with his
Bangladeshi counterpart Asaduzzaman Khan later in the day.
Bangladesh is home to more than 1.2 million Rohingya refugees,
most of whom fled a brutal military crackdown in their home country of Myanmar
in August 2017.
Since Aug. 25, 2017, nearly 24,000 Rohingya Muslims have been
killed while more than 34,000 were thrown into fires, over 114,000 beaten, and
as many as 18,000 Rohingya women and girls raped, according to a report by the
Ontario International Development Agency.
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