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How Myanmar coup caused its healthcare to vanish © Getty Images Myanmar's doctors are torn between their patients and a military government Myanmar's front-line medical workers are finding themselves in a precarious position, torn between their patients and working for a military government enforcing a brutal crackdown on the country. Moe* is 53 years old and has stage three breast cancer. She used to go for radiotherapy treatment every three weeks at the state-run Mandalay General Hospital in northern Myanmar. But the day after the military deposed Myanmar's elected government in a coup o...

Myanmar's front-line medical workers are torn between their patients and working for a military government enforcing a brutal crackdown on the country, and many are finding it a precarious position.

BBC News By Nick Marsh image captionMyanmar's doctors are torn between their patients and a military government Myanmar's front-line medical workers are finding themselves in a precarious position, torn between their patients and working for a military government enforcing a brutal crackdown on the country. Moe* is 53 years old and has stage three breast cancer. She used to go for radiotherapy treatment every three weeks at the state-run Mandalay General Hospital in northern Myanmar. But the day after the military deposed Myanmar's elected government in a coup on 1 February, the hospital clos...