Cox's Bazar, March 21 -- icddr,b here on Thursday organised a dissemination seminar to share its emergency healthcare response and pre-emptive oral cholera vaccination measures among the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals.

icddr,b and UNICEF jointly conducted a field assessment in Cox's Bazar in September 2017, and identified the potential risks of a diarrhoeal disease outbreak and related mitigation initiatives required, said a press release.

Accordingly, icddr,b partnered with UNICEF to strengthen healthcare services for diarrhoeal disease and malnutrition in the Rohingya community.

As described in the seminar, 'they came with nothing, they had nothing and needed infrastructure, sanitation, shelter, food, non-food items and health ...