The influx of more than 8.00,000 Rohingya people, fleeing violence and human rights abuses in Myanmar, triggered one of the fastest-growing and largest refugee crises in the world. It was declared an L3 emergency by UNHCR. The Government of Bangladesh has led the response, supported by over 100 international and national organizations. IOM was designated lead UN agency and established a sector-based coordination structure. The Rohingya refugees are a disempowered and disenfranchised group with low levels of literacy and no standardized nor internationally recognized written script for their language. This is a challenging context: most communication must be face-to-face and oral. The refugees have limited access to radios and are officially banned from owning SIM cards for Bangladeshi mobile phone networks. The Rohingya people have faced decades of systematic discrimination, statelessness and targeted violence in Rakhine State, Myanmar. Such persecution has forced Rohingya women, girls, boys and men into Bangladesh for many years. 

As part of the humanitarian responsibility KAMPS advanced forward to serving humanity for the hungry, needy and vulnerable Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals and distributed relief combo pack with dry food items (rice, pulse, salt, oil etc.) and medicine. The renowned Nephrologist Professor Dr. M A Samad, the founding President of KAMPS, distributed the relief items and medicine among the FDMN/Rohinga Refugees in Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar. The distribution program was supported by 15-member response team with humanitarian staff and medical doctors headed by Professor Samad. Along with relief goods distribution, KAMPS provided primary health care treatment/service delivery to the Rohinga refugees. Professor Samad expressed his good feelings to be a part of humanitarian response for the Rohinga refugees with the Government of Bangladesh and national, international NGOs/donor organizations.  Dr Samad added that KAMPS has been providing primary health care and kidney care service delivery for the poor and needy people in the community for more than 12 years and these are highly appreciated by the Rohinga Refugee beneficiaries, the authorities concerned and the government.