The relocation of 4,500 British Scouts from an international event into hotels in South Korea, according to the chief executive of the UK Scouts, would have an impact on activities for up to five years.
According to Matt Hyde, the UK contingent was transferred from the campground in Saemangeum to Seoul as a result of inadequate sanitization and medical care.
Mr. Hyde said, “We believe that the organisers let us down.
All Scouts will immediately be relocated from the encampment due to an anticipated typhoon.
The World Scout Jamboree organisers said on Monday that the South Korean authorities would provide information regarding the planned departure and the places where those who stayed in Saemangeum would stay.
From the beginning, this event has been marred by issues.
Local media reported that Scouts from the UK were among the hundreds of people who had become ill due to the 35C (95F) heat.
Also having removed their teams from the encampment were the US and Singapore.
The largest contingent, made up of Britons, began departing from the encampment near the Buan town on Saturday after having spent the previous week arriving there.
While there have been some improvements, according to Mr. Hyde, they are “too little, too late.” The UK Scouts have repeatedly voiced their concerns.
Four red lines involving a lack of shade, food for individuals with dietary needs, inadequate sanitation, and insufficient medical services were crossed at the site, he noted.
We frequently voiced some of these issues before we went and while we were there, and we were assured that things would be put in place, but they weren’t, he added. “We feel let down by the organisers,” he said.
“If you can imagine [toilets] being used by thousands and thousands of people and not being cleared with the regularity you would expect, you can imagine the sort of things that people were seeing.”
The Scout Association spent nearly £1 million of its reserves to relocate 4,500 people, according to the chief executive.
“We had commitments to those reserves, which will of course mean that we can’t now do things that we wanted to do over the next three to five years,” he said.
Every four years, in a different nation, the jamboree, dubbed the largest youth camp in the world, brings together Scouts from all over the world.
155 nations are represented in South Korea, and the majority of attendees are between the ages of 14 and 18.
The first jamboree since the outbreak was scheduled to last through August 12.