YANGON, July 18 —For a week, 21-year-old student Phoe Thar has been out by dawn to gather oxygen cylinders from the homes of coronavirus sufferers in Myanmar’s second city of Mandalay.
“Since the number of people who need oxygen tanks is massive, it’s a huge challenge for us,” Phoe Thar told Reuters by phone from Mandalay. Reuters was unable to reach the health ministry or a junta spokesman for comment on the outbreak and public response. A junta spokesman said last week there were difficuties in fighting the outbreak and urged people to cooperate with the government.
A health system that was already among the region’s weakest foundered after the coup as many health workers joined a Civil Disobdedience Movement to oppose the junta. Covid-19 vaccination, testing and prevention measures all stalled.One underground doctor who recently volunteered help on social media said he was inundated with hundreds of requests. When he made house calls he found almost all the sick had coronavirus symptoms and most had low oxygen levels.
Suu Kyi’s government had the advantage of volunteers who manned quarantine and testing centres and helped to take some of the weight at public hospitals. Instead, groups like his are organising by themselves, resembling the way Myanmar’s people often helped each other during disasters in the past - notably after a limited response by a previous junta to the devastating Cyclone Nargis in 2008.
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