With the state absent in many areas, doctors and nurses who were working in hospitals before the coup have stepped in to provide treatment in NUG facilities.
The country’s political and economic troubles are being shadowed by a looming public health crisis.
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May 05, 2021
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On April 12, Dr. Maw Maw Oo, a senior Emergency Medicine doctor, was forcibly abducted by armed soldiers at his office at Yangon General Hospital. Maw Maw Oo, who was coordinating his hospital’s COVID-19 vaccination and treatment efforts, is just one of dozens of physicians to have been arrested by Myanmar security forces since widespread protests began in the country three months ago. Since February 11, at least 109 attacks and threats against health workers, facilities, and transports have reportedly been perpetrated in Myanmar, according to an analysis based on open-source reports conducted by Insecurity Insight, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Public Health and Human Rights (CPHHR). During this period, at least 97 healthcare workers have been arrested, 32 injured, and 10 killed. These targeted and