{"id":62237,"date":"2024-02-29T19:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/feb\/29\/rohingya-refugees-despair-coxs-bazar-bangladesh-chronic-illness-acc"},"modified":"2024-02-29T19:00:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T10:00:14","slug":"life-is-meaningless-despair-for-rohingya-refugees-as-chronic-illness-blights-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62237","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Life is meaningless\u2019: despair for Rohingya refugees as chronic illness blights camps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People who fled genocide in Myanmar for the world\u2019s biggest refugee camp in Cox\u2019s Bazar, Bangladesh, are finding their lives devastated by diseases such as cancer and diabetes<\/p>\n<p>The 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.<\/p>\n<p>Saimun now spends her days incapacitated by pain, lying on the floor of her bamboo shelter. Around her, many of her neighbours suffer other types of non-communicable and chronic illnesses \u2013 cancers, diabetes and hypertension \u2013 but they often go without treatment and the tools they need to manage their conditions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/feb\/29\/rohingya-refugees-despair-coxs-bazar-bangladesh-chronic-illness-acc\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who fled genocide in Myanmar for the world\u2019s biggest refugee camp in Cox\u2019s 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 No&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,59,82,494,85,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-global-development","category-myanmar","category-refugees","category-rohingya","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62245,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62237\/revisions\/62245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}