Ker ching! Thanks to Leigh Mitchell for posting this Thailand hospital report. BDMS is cashing in on Myanmar ‘target patients’. Thailand's Bangkok Dusit Medical Services (#BDMS) witnessed 38% growth in international patient revenues in Q1 2023, in part due to fly-in patients from #Myanmar. The collapse of #Myanmar's healthcare sector = profits regional health providers?https://t.co/zTAkyvnILq […]

Have you listened to this podcast from Do Athan? Jamie Rural health care deterioration means losses for pregnant women in Tanintharyi

I like that the authors are clear that this report for UNFPA was drafted in January but was edited three times. Jamie https://myanmar.unfpa.org/en/publications/assessment-availability-accessibility-acceptability-and-quality-sexual-and-reproductive

Here is the new national vaccination coverage data from Myanmar. I understand the declines from the coup and junta mismanagement. But the rebounds I don’t think are accurate. I hear Myanmar leads the world in zero vaccination. But can’t find the data. Any comment from UNICEF in Myanmar? Jamie https://data.unicef.org/wp-content/uploads/cp/immunisation/mmr.pdf

There are no papers from Myanmar at this year’s International AIDS Conference. Here are all the abstracts in one PDF: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jia2.26134 Jamie

Do Athan in English on “Junta attacks on hospitals leave locals with no access to healthcare” Watch! Jamie ************************************** Junta attacks on hospitals leave locals with no access to healthcare

Thanks to AFP for debunking this false claim. I can’t find the original article. The junta ‘Ministry of Health and Sports’ should have shut this down. Jamie **************************************** No evidence effervescent tablet can cure diabetes, health experts say AFP Thailand Tue, July 18, 2023 at 3:30 AM EDT A video promoting a purported diabetes supplement […]

Reporting on the the rise in malaria that is affecting people in Myanmar and is beginning to affect people in Thailand, too. “This sharp reversal of past progress [on malaria control] in Myanmar since the coup stands in contrast with strides made elsewhere in Southeast Asia.” The junta is responsible. More than the monsoon rains […]

More on violence against health workers and destruction of health facilities. Jamie https://reliefweb.int/report/myanmar/myanmar-violence-against-health-care-conflict-2022

Frontier Myanmar reported this from Daily Eleven a while back. These episodes of mass hysteria can be found anywhere. Jamie ********************************************** About 50 students fall ill during event to incinerate narcotics in Shan State capital, Taunggyi About 50 students fainted or became dizzy in the Shan State capital, Taunggyi, on June 26 at an event […]

Listen to Nandar in this episode of BojuBajai. There is much for all of us to learn about activism in Myanmar. Jamie **************************************** https://bojubajai.org/episodes/uaf_ep3-activism-in-exile-conversation-with-nandar/

Mandela’s words ring in my head. “No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.” Read this report from the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) @aappb. Jamie *********************************** The flow of injustice outlined […]