Medical Workers Targeted in Myanmar's Post-Coup Crisis – The Diplomat
The country’s political and economic troubles are being shadowed by a looming public health crisis. By May 05, 2021 Advertisement On April 12, Dr. Maw Maw Oo, a senior Emergency Medicine doctor, was forcibly abducted by armed soldiers at his office at Yangon General Hospital. Maw Maw Oo, who was coordinating his hospital’s COVID-19 vaccination and treatment efforts, is just one of dozens of physicians to have been arrested by Myanmar security forces since widespread protests began in the country three months ago. Since February 11, at least 109 attacks and threats against health workers,...