Everyone says the refugee problem will get worse. There are from 50,000-100,000 people waiting just over the border. Each day, between 2,000 and 3,000 people are driven away in buses for other, presumably healthier, destinations such as homes of sympathetic people in Macedonia. But many thousands more arrive. Sanitation is becoming a major problem.
Health workers fear dysentery, diarrhea and other diseases.
Refugees are using a river that runs through the area to wash themselves and their clothes. Crisp spring winds blow through the camps. People go into nearby woods to try to find wood to build campfires. To make matters worse, as if to taunt the refugees, two dozen empty buses sit more than a mile down the road, but only two with refugees leave each hour. Many have empty seats.