If you walked into Cynthia Scott's waiting room at a clinic in the Cox's Bazar district of Bangladesh, you would be surrounded by people lying on benches looking pained and malnourished.
They're part of the flood of 600,000 Rohingya refugees who've fled violence in Myanmar and sought refuge in neighboring Bangladesh. The U.N. has called the exodus "the world's fastest growing refugee crisis."
"The amount of people is just unfathomable," says Scott, a clinical psychologist who is a mental health activities manager for Doctors Without Borders. "My worry is that it's in the news for a moment, and then gone."
[For more on this story by COURTNEY COLUMBUS, go to https://www.npr.org/sections/g...-traumatized-to-talk]
Photo: Rohingya refugees wait for medical treatment at a 'Doctors Without Borders clinic in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Paula Bronstein/Getty Images
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