Bangladesh

In Bangladesh, the ICRC helps people affected by violence, visits detainees, supports physical rehabilitation services and promotes IHL. Together with the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society, it strives to re-establish family links where contacts between relatives have been interrupted, and to reunite missing people with their families.

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In numbers

Facts and figures — Jan - June 2021

77,208
Detainees in 68 prisons benefited from Infection Prevention and Control measures and donation of medical and non-medical items to help prevent the spread of COVID-19
119
Missing people traced and put in contact with their families as part of the Restoring Family Links programme
112
Health workers and first responders benefited from training sessions enabling them to manage stress
4,000
People displaced from Rakhine regularly assisted with food and essential household items

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119
Unaccounted-for people located successfully and reestablished contact with their families with the help of the Restoring Family Links Programme
65,800
Items of personal protective equipment (PPE) along with 2,575 body bags were donated to various institutions to help them cope with the COVID-19 pandemic
3,613
People with disabilities fitted with prostheses and orthoses and provided with physiotherapy services and/or assistive devices
1,636
People with disabilities were fitted with prostheses and orthoses and received physiotherapy services (including 36 displaced people from Rakhine and host communities)
558
Military and police personnel were trained in International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and International Human Rights Law (IHRL)
232
First responders and health workers benefited from training in first aid, basic first-aid (Training of Trainers) and burns management

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