'Skin and bones': doctors fear for malnourished Rohingya The UN says more than 14,100 children are at risk of dying from malnutrition in wretched camps in Bangladesh where half a million mainly Rohingya refugees depend entirely on charities for survival. Food distribution in the vastly overcrowded settlements is still ad hoc and uncoordinated, the UN says, more than a month after refugees began pouring into southern Bangladesh to escape ethnic bloodshed in Myanmar.