Health Lead Story News Rohingya
Health workers in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh are struggling with a shortage of medics able to administer antitoxins to patients infected with diphtheria that has killed nearly two dozen people, aid officials said.
Once a smuggling stop for Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge guerrillas, a Thai border town finds itself on the frontline of a new battle against drug-resistant strains of malaria that could frustrate global attempts to stamp out the disease.
The number of malaria cases in Burma has been reduced by 85 percent since 2012, and the country is now aiming to be a malaria-free country by 2030, according to Dr. Aung Thi of the National Malaria Elimination Project.
Arakan Health Lead Story News Rohingya
In a speech last week, Aung San Suu Kyi said all people in Arakan State “have access to education and healthcare services without discrimination.” For critics, however, that’s simply not true — a contention supported by a report that Suu Kyi’s own government has embraced.
Former political prisoners are still locked in a battle against depression and anxiety – the aftermath of decades of imprisonment and isolation.
Health Lead Story News Sagaing
In Sagaing Division, it has been reported that six family members of medical doctors have contracted H1N1.
The number dead after contracting the H1N1 “swine flu” virus climbed to 17 on Tuesday as efforts to contain its spread and treat those infected continue.
Health officials in Burma have sought to calm fears among the public over the outbreak of H1N1, also known as swine flu.
Health Lead Story Mandalay Division News
Meanwhile, in Mandalay, the annual Taung Pyone festival has been called off due to fears of spreading the virus.
Six people have died in an outbreak of H1N1 influenza largely hitting Burma’s biggest city, Rangoon, a health official said on Thursday, amid government efforts to track the spread of the virus known as swine flu.
Burmese health officials said on Tuesday that two more people had died after contracting H1N1 influenza in the largest city, Rangoon, a day after the government said more than a dozen people had contracted the virus known as swine flu.
Burma called for calm on Monday after 13 people were confirmed to have contracted H1N1 influenza and a boy had died with flu-like symptoms, raising fears of a new outbreak of a virus also known as swine flu.
Health Lead Story News Rangoon
“From early 2017 to 9 July 2017, 2,855 people have been diagnosed with dengue fever and 18 died from the virus.”
The number of dengue fever cases in the first six months of this year was higher than the whole of 2016.
Since political reforms and Burma’s opening to the world began in 2011, the country’s healthcare sector has seen growing investment from both the government and foreign healthcare providers.
Burma is training up hundreds of midwives in an effort to reduce the number of women who die in childbirth, one of many social policy reforms launched by the country as it emerges from decades of military rule.
A Rangoon pilot programme launched by Medicines Sans Frontieres in Burma is testing a new international access campaign using two new drugs — bedaquiline and delamanid — that are not widely available in countries like Burma that have a high tuberculosis (TB) burden.
Multidrug-resistant malaria superbugs have taken hold in parts of Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, threatening to undermine progress against the disease, scientists said.
Doctors at the government hospital in Naypyidaw have successfully removed what appeared to be triplet foetuses inside a three-month-old boy, the Burmese military-owned Myawady News reported on Tuesday.
Health Interview Lead Story News
Dr Khin Mar Cho is a nutrition specialist and director at Cornell University’s College for Agriculture and Life Sciences in the USA.
Experts say Burma is largely unprepared for an outbreak of Zika, as the Health Ministry slashes anti-virus measures due to a lack of funds.
Starting in 1988 with only four beds, the clinic has developed into a fully-fledged health facility providing inpatient services, surgery, dental care, vaccinations and HIV prevention.
Thai health officials say 33 new Zika virus cases have been detected in the country as officials step up screening for groups at high risk from the disease.
A new programme set to begin early next year aims to prevent the widespread problem of stunting among children in Chin State.
A pregnant foreign woman has been diagnosed with Zika in the first confirmed case of the mosquito-borne virus in Burma, according to state media.
Feature Health Lead Story News Women's Issues
In a country where the subject of sex is still shrouded in shame, teaching young people how to prevent unwanted pregnancies remains a challenge.
The proposed move is the latest sign of growing concern about the spread of the mosquito-borne disease in Southeast Asia.
The first reported cases of Zika-related microcephaly in Southeast Asia came a day after US health officials issued an advisory about the growing risk of the disease in the region.
Health Lead Story News Travel & Tourism
The advisory issued by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention comes as Burma and other countries in the region prepare for the peak tourism season.
Those detained allegedly operated a widespread network of counterfeit Chinese drugs, which they packaged and labeled in jars as BPI products.
