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Data collection organisation Insecurity Insight has collated a list of attacks on healthcare providers documented by the media, from 20 March to 2 April 2024.
Eight attacks, outlined below, were carried out on Myanmar health providers during that period.
22 March 2024: In La Ei village, Yi Nwe Village Tract, Pekon township, Taunggyi District, a station hospital was severely damaged by bombs dropped by Myanmar military fighter jets. This attack damaged an ambulance parked in front of the hospital, killed two civilians, and injured at least five. At the time of the attack, the hospital was not functioning but used as a storage facility by local health workers and resistance forces. Sources: Irrawaddy and Khit Thit Media
22 March 2024: In Nang Toke Village and village tract, Pinlaung Township, Taunggyi District, Shan State (South), a sub-rural health centre and five civilian houses were damaged by bombs dropped by Myanmar military fighter jets. At the time of the attack, the health facility was not functioning due to the increase in armed clashes between the Myanmar military and an ethnic armed group Pa-Oh National Liberation Army in the township for two months before the attack. Sources: Khit Thit Media and Mizzima
23 March 2024: In Yesagyo Town and township, Pakokku District, Magway Region, a township hospital, a monastery, a police station, and a veterans’ office occupied by the Myanmar military were attacked with small arms, improvised artillery, and armed drones by the local resistance forces. In addition to the exchange of fire on the ground, artillery shells launched by the Myanmar military base camps in the surrounding areas landed in this town during this attack. The hospital was functioning under the junta regime at the time of the attack. Damage or casualties at the hospital were not reported. Sources: Khit Thit Media and Myanmar Pressphoto Agency
24 March 2024: In Kan Htaunt Gyi Village and village tract, Myebon Township, Mrauk-U District, Rakhine State, a station hospital was severely damaged due to bombs dropped by the Myanmar military fighter jets. A 40-year-old female civilian was injured. At the time of the attack, the health facility was not functioning due to the armed clashes in Rakhine State between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army. Sources: BBC Burmese and Mizzima
25 March 2024: In Maungdaw Town, township, and district, Rakhine State, arrest warrants were issued for two medical doctors by the junta authorities. They accuse the doctors of having provided health care to the Arakan Army. These two doctors were blacklisted so they cannot go abroad. The health workers were forced to leave Maungdaw Town for Sittwe Town; however, the victims reportedly did not obey the order. Due to these arrest warrants, other junta health workers having served at the public health facilities in the armed clashes areas in Rakhine state went into hiding. Sources: Delta News Agency, Narinjara and Radio Free Asia.
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