Medicines Sans Frontiers or MSF Leer Field Coordinator said IDPs face ‘dire and life threatening conditions’ with lack of food, water, shelter and medical care in bushes.
Sarah Maynard said the IDPs were drinking dirty water, eating water lilies and too scared to move out fearing insecurity.
She said thousands IDPs were cut off from critical and lifesaving medical care after Leer hospital was looted, destroyed between January and February.
The Coordinator said their local staff who fled into bushes went with limited dressing materials and operated patients dressings could not be changed.
Ms Maynard said 240 MSF staff remained hiding in the bush and could not come out for fear of attacks
She lamented that MSF was ‘very desperate’ to reach them because it was insecure.
Ms Maynard said if IDPs were to return tomorrow or a month later, they would return to ruins of their former homes and no healthcare.