Myanmar front-line health workers are overwhelmed
Myanmar has seen a spike in infections with total cases topping 100,000, adding to pressure on a health system heavily dependent on volunteers
08 December 2020 - 13:39
Yangon — Myanmar nurse Win Win Myint says the strain of working during the coronavirus pandemic has left her and some of her colleagues on the front-lines in the Southeast Asian country’s fragile healthcare system physically and mentally exhausted.
Win oversees a Covid-19 quarantine centre in Yangon in a converted school that monitors people with mild symptoms or suspected cases and says on average two government health workers have to guide about 100 volunteers at each centre...
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