This article is composed of the usual crap we expect of Myanmar Alin. It states:

"Certain organizations are releasing exaggerated stories through foreign media that Myanmar people are deprived of human rights with a low health standard, the number of the people infected with HIV and suffering AIDS is high, and Myanmar’s health standard is ranked at 191 out of the 192 UN member countries."

There is no exaggeration here. Myanmar people are deprived of their human right to health. They have a low standard of health. And the health system was properly ranked among the worst in the world. HIV prevalence in the country is among the three highest in Asia.

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Myanmar people are healthy and fit
Yanant Hlaing
Myanmar Alin

Myanmar is working hard, mobilizing the
strength of national doctors and health staff to
be able to catch up with other countries in
health care. In reality, Myanmar does not lag
behind other countries in the health sector.
Myanmar people have access to nutritious
food and are pursuing the motto “Good health
is a great blessing”.

Some scholars define the word ‘Myanmar’ as a
quick, alert, healthy, fit and tough people. Since the
time when it was named ‘Myanmar’, it has never
been recorded as a spineless or notorious people. In
the colonial days, the colonialists in their record
admitted that they could not occupy the country
easily. Had Myanmar been able to keep abreast of
international affairs with technology and a wide
knowledge at that time, the colonialists could not
have invaded Myanmar.

Due to lack of knowledge about international
affairs, Myanmar fell under the rule of the colonialists
that had been colonizing other countries around the
world and expanding their colonial empire. Myanmar
was capable of contending with the colonialists in
physical prowess and hardness. Myanmar people
could make the colonialists get into difficulties
considerably.

By nature, Myanmar people are honest and gentle
and they lead a peaceful life. At the same time, they
are capable of repulsing any alien invasion without
placing reliance on any other countries and are brilliant
and strong with the spirit of making sacrifices if
necessary to protect and safeguard the image of own
lineage. In the present time, the entire people have
managed to convene the National Convention
successfully, braving various forms of destructive
acts created by the colonialists and national traitors.
In accordance with the State’s seven-step Road Map,
the constitution will be drafted and approved through
a referendum.

Myanmar also managed to improve the economic,
health and social sectors with self-reliant efforts,
withstanding subversive acts, and so it is now reaping
the fruits of its hard work. However, internal
destructive elements, who are desperate to seize
power through short-cut in their own interests, in
collusion with neo-colonialists are disrupting the
tasks for national development. The colonialists’ minion
organizations released made-up stories and willfully
stated Myanmar’s health standard lower than it really
was.

Certain organizations are releasing exaggerated
stories through foreign media that Myanmar people
are deprived of human rights with a low health
standard, the number of the people infected with HIV
and suffering AIDS is high, and Myanmar’s health
standard is ranked at 191 out of the 192 UN member
countries.

The world knows Myanmar’s health standard
and health care, and so do health staff who are
shouldering duties in the health field, national races
and rural people. Indeed, the stooges with negative
views are manufacturing fabrications in this regard.
The people understand well that Myanmar does not lag
behind other countries in the health sector.

The government is building health infrastructures
across the nation including border areas and rural
areas, appointing more health staff, and providing
medicines and medical equipment. It has constructed
a 200-bed hospital each in the 24 special development
regions.

It is also taking necessary measures such as
upgrading the old hospitals, opening specialist hospitals
including 300-bed and 200-bed ones, and installing
international level medical equipment in them. As a
result, the people’s health standard is improving
considerably.

The UN and international organizations have
recognized that Myanmar has been able to control
some of the common diseases and to remove dangerous
positions of some diseases and has been free from
some diseases. Now, it is free from smallpox and polio
and is able to control diphtheria, trismus, whooping
cough, measles, trachoma and blindness. It has been
able to prevent highly infectious diseases such as
cholera and plague. At the third ministerial world
leprosy elimination conference of WHO held in
Myanmar in 2003, Myanmar was declared as a nation
free from leprosy.

According to the WHO, the outbreak of TB,
malaria and HIV/AIDS is on the decrease in Myanmar,
less than that in neighbouring countries. According to
the figures compiled by UNADIS in 2006, HIV/AIDS
occurrence rate in Myanmar was 1.3 per cent, and
according to UNDP, 1.2 per cent, less than that in
neighbouring countries.

So, it is clear that the spread of the rumour that the
outbreak of HIV/AIDS in Myanmar was shockingly
alarming was associated with the political instigation.
Anti-government groups at home and abroad are
putting pressure on international community to cut
aids and humanitarian aids to Myanmar, thereby
showing their cruelty towards the people.

Myanmar is taking preventive measures against
HIV/AIDS at state and division level, district level
and township level with the participation of the entire
people.

Now, Myanmar has 832 hospitals due to the
opening of 201 more hospitals and has upgraded 149
hospitals. It has opened 16 medical institutions such
as university of medicine, university of dental
medicine, university of pharmacy, university of
paramedical sciences, university of nursing,
university of community health and traditional
medicine university. Myanmar medical experts’
successful separation of conjoined twins, transplant
of liver, renal transplant, replanting of broken
forearm, and internal level medical science and
medical operations reflect Myanmar’s high medical
standard.

With better health care, Myanmar people’s lifeexpectancy
is getting high. In 2005, the life-spans of
rural men and women increased to 60.8 years and 63.3
years, up from 56.2 years, and 60.4 years in 1988.

During the same period, the life-spans of urban men
and women rose from 59 years and 63.2 years in 1988
to 61.5 years and 65.6 years.

According to the data the WHO released in its
Golden Jubilee, Myanmar’s health standard stood in
the middle of the list of that of developing countries.
Myanmar is working hard, mobilizing the strength
of national doctors and health staff to be able to catch
up with other countries in health care. In reality,
Myanmar does not lag behind other countries in the
health sector. Myanmar people have access to
nutritious food and are pursuing the motto “Good
health is a great blessing”.

Translation: MS
Myanma Alin: 9-11-2007

http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs4/NLM2007-1

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