‘Mothers won’t die, babies can survive’: new maternal hospital opens in world’s largest refugee camp

As aid cuts strip back food and supplies, the facility offers a rare hope for Rohingya women who previously faced frightening and risky conditions to give birth Kutupalong camp is at its quietest just before dawn. A thin grey light over the hills of Cox’s Bazar in south-east Bangladesh, traces the outlines of tarpaulin roofs and bamboo frames – the fragile architecture of the largest refugee camp in the world. Inside the shelters, women wake early not out of habit, but necessity, stepping car...

By Thaslima Begum