The first is that they expect far more internal displacement than refugees fleeing the country.
More than two million people are internal refugees and more than a hundred thousand are amputees, victims of the countless numbers of land mines strewn across the country.
A national victimization survey conducted by Mexico's federal statistics institute in 2014 suggested there could be more than 1 million internal refugees in the country, by tallying individuals who said they left their homes due to threats or violence.
The number of internal refugees is probably more than 100,000, said Lanzer, who is seeking urgent financial assistance from the U.S., Britain and other European countries.
And health workers in Karachi – with its population of more than 20 million, communities of internal refugees from conflict zones, slums and frightening reputation for political and criminal violence – face an exceptionally daunting task.
Of the more than 4 million refugees, at least a million are yet to go back to their homeland, and there still about a million internal refugees.
Tented camps are being erected for the internal refugees.
Mr. Bacon of Refugees International said there may already be one million internal refugees in Afghanistan.
No more rhythms, no more internal rhythms.
The UN estimated that the number of internal refugees reached two million.
