Dhaka, Feb 18 (UNI) International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has said an estimated 574,000 people in Cox's Bazar Rohingya will face the coming cyclone seasons with only rotting bamboo and shredding plastic to protect them.
After 18 months, it said, housing conditions have dramatically deteriorated, leaving people worryingly exposed.
A Red Cross Red Crescent survey found that 82 per cent of the 700,000 people in sprawling camps urgently need sturdier shelters to protect them from extreme temperatures, monsoon downpours and two cyclone seasons a year, according to a media statement issued both from Cox's Bazar and Kuala Lumpur on Monday.