Myanmar Covid-19 outbreak hits health system shattered after coup

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Without enough testing staff, it is widely believed that case numbers are much more numerous than reported.

Breathless, fevered and without the extra oxygen that could help keep them alive, the new coronavirus patients at a hospital near Myanmar's border with India highlight the threat to a health system near collapse since February's coup.

To help her tend the seven Covid-19 patients at Cikha hospital, day and night, chief nurse Lun Za En has a lab technician and a pharmacist's assistant."We don't have enough oxygen, enough medical equipment, enough electricity, enough doctors or enough ambulances...

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

 

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The coup in Burma is Very similar to the Sheraton move in Malaysia. 9000+ cases and 98 deaths happened only because of the dysfunctional backdoor government. Otherwise the situation could have been different.

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