NHS medics prevent epidemic among Rohingya

The team of 40 NHS doctors, nurses and paramedics triaged more than 3,000 people, and treated more than 500 for diphtheria, most of them children.Before the teams arrived, the outbreak was on the verge of becoming an epidemic.The UK's emergency medical team, which was stationed at three treatment centres, administered precautionary antibiotics and life-saving diphtheria anti-toxins to people in the camps.