Military and police havoc on doctors in Myanmar: Healthcare workers targeted; If opposed, the army occupied many hospitals, vaccination stopped

Healthcare workers are now the target of the army and police in Myanmar. They are being beaten up as a traitor or a rebel. Even during the treatment of patients, army and police personnel are entering the hospital and assaulting the doctors. Nurses are being targeted. Doctors and nurses are being booked for non-compliance and sedition. They are even being murdered. Due to this, vaccination has also stopped in the country battling the corona epidemic. Many videos of doctors beating with the butt of a gun have also come to the fore.

The persecution of health workers is because of their protest against the military coup. The army has called him a rebel. Arrest warrants have been issued against 400 such doctors and 180 nurses. At least 157 health workers have been arrested since February, according to Insecurity Insight, which analyzes conflicts around the world. Of these, 32 have been injured and 12 have been killed. About 51 hospitals have been completely occupied. Let us tell you that in 2018 there were only 6.7 doctors per 10 thousand people in Myanmar. Whereas in 2017 its average in the world was 15.6.

Warrants against 400 doctors and 180 nurses so far

Army targeting as a weapon of war

Myanmar's military government is deliberately targeting the entire health system as a weapon of war. A doctor who has been on the run in Yangon for the past several days said, 'We believe that it is our humane and ethical job to treat patients. I never thought it would be made a crime.

These doctors have been hiding from the army and the police since the last week of February. Because they were treating the injured people in the demonstrations against the army. One day the army and police raided the clinic where these doctors were treating. Many of his companions took him away. These attacks have increased the resentment against the army among the people.

240 attacks on health workers in Myanmar

According to the World Health Organization, there have been 508 incidents of attacks on doctors or health workers worldwide so far this year. Of these, 240 attacks took place in Myanmar only. Director of the US-based Physicians for Human Rights, Dr. Raha Wala said, “This is a group of people who have stood against human rights abuses in Myanmar for decades. Everyone stands for what is right. The army has come down to commit atrocities against them.

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