Doctors and health care providers lead the resistance. Some recent pieces. https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/doctors-04192021190924.html https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmars-doctors-urge-un-action-military-junta.html?utm_source=The+Irrawaddy&utm_campaign=6c3225c4cc-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1465753ec6-6c3225c4cc-26452881&ct=t(RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN) https://www.mizzima.com/article/international-emergency-medicine-body-release-myanmar-doctors https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-regime-steps-arrests-doctors-strike-movement-takes-toll.html Jamie. Some recent pieces. https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/doctors-04192021190924.html https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmars-doctors-urge-un-action-military-junta.html?utm_source=The+Irrawaddy&utm_campaign=6c3225c4cc-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1465753ec6-6c3225c4cc-26452881&ct=t(RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN) https://www.mizzima.com/article/international-emergency-medicine-body-release-myanmar-doctors https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-regime-steps-arrests-doctors-strike-movement-takes-toll.html Jamie
Medical students
Here’s a video of medical students in detention in Magwe. https://twitter.com/AungKO27156588/status/1384873081190195202?s=20 Courage! Jamie
Follow
Do follow this account. Myanmar Doctors For Human Rights @DoctorsRights Jamie
Math
A quarter were released shortly after the coup began. A quarter now. About fifty thousand people are currently incarcerated in Myanmar. Is my math right? https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/myanmar-releases-prisoners-new-year-though-likely-not-dissidents-2021-04-17/ Jamie
Can you watch
Can you watch this in Myanmar? Jamie
Fundraiser
A fundraiser. https://www.gofundme.com/f/cdm-to-help-myanmars-high-mountain-people?fbclid=IwAR2DE-btmCrPA_Ff7QekVwRcPNt18jKw5DRLDkGoenZYZI0395EYp03-KEk Jamie
Vaccination update
It has been a week since this Frontier article on Covid19 vaccination in Myanmar. Have their been any articles on other routine vaccinations that I have missed? Anti-military defiance slows COVID-19 vaccination to a trickle Jamie
Pediatrician
“Dr. Ohn Ohn Yee had posted a sign outside her clinic saying she would not receive patients from the families of regime forces responsible for the murder of children.”” Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Pediatrician jailed for refusing to treat police officer’s child A pediatrician from Hpa-an has been charged with incitement for refusing to treat the child […]
Some
I use Protonmail for some of my email communication. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Proton in Myanmar Recently, the people of Myanmar have been fighting to defend their human rights after the military deposed their democratically-elected government and seized power on Feb. 1. In the weeks since, military forces have killed over 250 peaceful protesters and illegally detained […]
Collapsed
Andrew Kirkwood has also stated that the public health system has collapsed. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-number-of-people-living-in-poverty-in-myanmar-has-doubled-in-last-year/ Jamie
Assessment
Richard Horsey has written about the health system in bullet three: Third, the health system has collapsed. Many public hospitals are shuttered as medical staff refuse to work for the regime. Other hospitals in key city locations have been taken over by soldiers as forward operating bases, with patients evicted. Medical first responders have been […]
Engage or not?
The Health in Myanmar [him] moderator has made a couple of postings recently about the Red Cross in Myanmar. Is the Committee or the Federation going to engage with the junta or not? It is time to decide. https://progressivevoicemyanmar.org/2021/04/09/open-letter-from-myanmar-csos-regarding-the-myanmar-red-cross-societys-attendance-at-the-murderous-juntas-armed-forces-day-celebration-violates-principles-of-icrc-and-ifrc-mrcs-part/ JamieE

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