Diagnosis Critical - Report from Mae Tao Clinic

Diagnosis: Critical: Health and Human Rights in Eastern Burma

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Burma's health care reaches crisis point

"We want the international community to consider this as a crime against humanity," said Dr Maung, who won the Magsaysay Award for her humanitarian work.
Almost one third of those surveyed experienced human rights abuses in the preceding year, particularly forced labour and displacement. The report also states that the abuses are directly linked with the health crisis, as children in displaced families were three times more likely to suffer.
The problem of children and women who die from preventable and curable diseases can be solved through comprehensive public health services, Dr Maung said.
"But unless the human rights violations are stopped in Burma, the health problems cannot be solved."

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"Until now we haven't received any assistance from the Australian government for these populations who are under threat of forced labour, forced relocation by the (Burmese) state government," [Dr Cynthia Maung] told AAP.

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"Dr Muang oversees a 300 bed clinic in the Thai border town of Mae Sot and more than 100,000 patients a year, 50 per cent of whom come from Burma."

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"The local Mae Sot community also looks after a growing population of abandoned children. The clinic and a network of 62 community schools already educate 12,000 children from migrant workers and refugees in the provincial Mae Sot area. Dr. Muang says as people lose livelihoods children are being left behind."