More than a thousand people displaced by fighting in Magway Region’s Pauk township have contracted various skin diseases due to deteriorating hygiene conditions, according to relief workers. After relying on the same sources for drinking, bathing, and daily use over a long period, many now have skin infections,” said the official from the NUG’s Pauk Township Humanitarian and Disaster Risk Management Department. This approach is more effective than digging wells due to the nature of the current situation, according to the NUG official. There are estimated to be at least 24,000 displaced civilians in Pauk Township, including some from villages near the regime’s Ordnance Factory No. Recent junta advances in Pauk Township have caused some 10,000 people from more than 30 villages to be temporarily displaced this month alone, according to NUG estimates.