What do you think of giving influenza vaccinations first to health care providers? Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ More than 100,000 healthcare personnel to be vaccinated for seasonal flu (H1N1) free of charge 7Day News Daily from Frontier Media Monitor More than 100,000 government healthcare personnel will be vaccinated for seasonal flu (H1N1) free of charge this year, […]

Myanmar has received a lot of money for Covid-19. Where will it all go? Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Myanmar Parliament Approves US$50 M World Bank Loan for Health Care Systems The Irrawaddy May 2020 YANGON—The Myanmar Union Parliament approved a proposal on Friday to borrow a US$50 million emergency loan from the World Bank to improve hospital […]

Of course prison guards in Myanmar sell drugs to prisoners. This is common knowledge. But it takes courage for a former prisoner to reveal this. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Mawlamyine prison under investigation for drugs and corruption Officers helped inmates buy 5,000-kyat methamphetamine pills, amnestied drug offender says Sandar Nyan May 16, 2020 Mawlamyine prison is under […]

Making a list of free medicines to post in public hospitals is easy. Why has it not been done? I think I know A doubling of the governmental expenditure every year for three years would take care of this. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Myanmar to Double Health Spending to Supply Free Medicines Thiha Lwin The Irrawaddy 19 […]

“Please answer the truth for the sake of you and your family’s health.” Fever clinics were an interesting development. Asking about the several symptoms that may indicate Covid19 takes less than a minute. It appears that no physical examinations take place. So they are symptom screening sites. But the photo shows a machine that sprays […]

Here is a thread on health care workers in Myanmar. 1. This History Thread is a brief history of health care professionals in Burma including nurses, doctors, traditional healers, midwives and community workers. pic.twitter.com/ZpSMzeAI6a — Edith Mirante (@EdithMirante) May 21, 2020 Great weekend reading from Edith Mirante. Jamie

Almost a thousand ‘gallons’ of methy fentanyl. Where was it manufactured? Is fentanyl adulteration common in #Myanmar? Do fentanyl overdoses occur? How did they ‘hide’ this? So many questions unanswered by the article. Jamie Almost a thousand 'gallons' of methy #fentanyl. Where was it manufactured? Is fentanyl adulteration common in #Myanmar? Do fentanyl overdoses occur? […]

The World Health Organization @WHO states: “Spraying or fumigation of outdoor spaces, such as streets or marketplaces, is also not recommended to kill the COVID-19 virus” https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstreams/1277966/retrieve So why the water cannons spraying chemicals in Naypyitaw? Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Disinfection conducted at Hluttaw buildings in Nay Pyi Taw to prevent spread of COVID-19 disease Posted by […]

Myanmar had adequate time to prepare for a coronavirus epidemic and took action. “However, some observers, particularly form [sic] outside Myanmar, have not been optimistic about Myanmar’s capacity to control and contain COVID-19.” Are journalists still fingerpointing at foreigners? Most nonoptomistic observers I know are from *inside* Myanmar. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Reasons for optimism in Myanmar’s […]

So far so good. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Two new COVID-19 cases detected in Myanmar, taking case count to 184 Aung Phay Kyi SOE Myanmar Times 17 May 2020 Two new COVID-19 cases were reported in Myanmar as at 8pm on May 17. Both the patients are from Yangon. Case 183 is a 57-year-old male from Mayangone […]

Disappointing to see nothing about local transmission in this blog post on Covid19 and coronavirus in Myanmar. It is not a foreign disease. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ A Voice From the Front Line: Implications for Migrant Workers in Myanmar blog post Htun Nyunt Oo Director of National AIDS Programme, MoHS, Myanmar) In this blog series we are […]

What a shame that Myanmar was left out of this analysis of fast tracking the response to HIV in Asia. https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanhiv/PIIS2352-3018(20)30077-1.pdf Jamie