| News - Health Written by IRINnews Wednesday, 02 June 2010 16:30 | | | BANGKOK, 1 June 2010 (IRIN) - Myanmar has successfully eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT), the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports. |
| News - Health Written by The Irrawaddy Friday, 02 April 2010 17:31 | | The price of medicine has skyrocketed since a fire destroyed the Mingala Market in Rangoon last week. The market was a major source of wholesale distribution of medicine and other goods across the country. |
| News - Health Written by Mizzima News Monday, 29 March 2010 19:00 | | | The Thai government has approved an increased budget for 172 public border hospitals to provide medical services for nearly 500,000 stateless people ... |
| News - Health Written by THE IRRAWADDY Wednesday, 10 February 2010 21:51 | | | Eleven more students were confirmed with A/H1N1 flu in Rangoon on Wednesday, and the spread of the virus has reached a critical stage, a physician from the Ministry of Health said... |
| News - Health Written by IRINnews Thursday, 04 February 2010 21:15 | | | Tolerance to artemisinin, the most effective anti-malarial drug available, is emerging in Myanmar and could pose a major challenge to regional malaria control, says the World Health Organization (WHO)... |
| News - Health Written by ARKAR MOE/The Irrawaddy Friday, 08 January 2010 23:14 | | | A 59-year-old woman, Kyi Lay, died while undergoing a hip operation at Aung Yadana Medical Center in Rangoon on Jan. 5 in the latest of a series of deaths at Rangoon hospitals and private clinics ... |
| News - Health Written by Xinhua Sunday, 16 August 2009 17:46 | | | The number of H1N1 flu-infected patients has reached 21 in Myanmar, according to the Health Department Sunday. A 21-year-old woman who returned from Singapore by flight No. MI-518 on Thursday was the latest confirmed case of the new flu... |
| News - Health Written by Naw Noreen/DVB Saturday, 15 August 2009 20:32 | | | Four Burmese children living in a refugee camp close to the Thai-Burma border have been infected with the AH1N1 virus, according to a medical aid group working in the area... |
| News - Health Written by Bernama Wednesday, 12 August 2009 14:27 | | | One more person was found infected with new influenza A/H1N1 in Myanmar, making the total number of such cases rising to 18 in the country, China's Xinhua news agency reported quoting the Health Department as saying Wednesday... |
| News - Health Written by Xinhua Monday, 10 August 2009 23:01 | | | A total of 17 new influenza cases have so far been reported in Myanmar, according to the Health Department Monday.The 17th patient, a 40-year-old man, arrived at Myanmar's airport on Saturday, back from Malaysia... |
| News - Health Written by ARKAR MOE/The Irrawaddy Thursday, 30 July 2009 21:44 | | | Burmese physicians have criticized the military regime over their handling of the outbreak of swine (H1N1) flu in Burma, and they are calling for greater public participation in the fight against the disease... |
| News - Health Written by Francis Wade/DVB Thursday, 30 July 2009 17:05 | | | The Burmese government today confirmed the tenth case of the A(H1N1) swine flu virus, that of a 57-year-old man who had recently returned from Singapore. The latest victim was transferred to Rangoon General Hospital on Tuesday ... |
| News - Health Written by Xinhua Wednesday, 29 July 2009 13:41 | | | Two more patients have been found infected with new influenza A/H1N1 in Myanmar, bringing the total number of such cases to nine in the country, the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported Wednesday... |
| News - Health Written by Thiri Htet San/DVB Wednesday, 29 July 2009 13:27 | | | An outbreak of dengue fever has hit a camp in Thailand that holds some 37,000 refugees from Burma, with ten people so far known to have been affected. According to the Mae La camp healthcare coordinator, Si Si Layar, three people have been admitted to hospital ... |
| News - Health Written by THE MEDICAL NEWS Tuesday, 28 July 2009 23:32 | | | The AP/KTVZ.com examines how after years of strained relationships between the "military-run nation" of Myanmar and international donors that led to a large reduction in HIV/AIDS funding, donors are considering reinvesting in the country's HIV/AIDS programs... |
| News - Health Written by Xinhua Tuesday, 28 July 2009 23:26 | | | New influenza A/H1N1 cases have risen to seven in Myanmar with a 25-year-old man being found to have been infected with the virus as the seventh flu patient in the country, the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported Tuesday... |
| News - Health Written by ARKAR MOE/The Irrawaddy Tuesday, 28 July 2009 22:48 | | | Burma has confirmed a seventh case of H1N1 flu after a man tested positive for the virus on Tuesday. State media reported that a man, 25, who returned from Thailand on Thai Airways Flight TG305 on July 16, was found ill and transferred from his township ... |
| News - Health Written by SAW YAN NAING/The Irrawaddy Monday, 27 July 2009 18:46 | | | An outbreak of dengue fever in Myitkyina, capital of Burma’s Kachin State, has claimed several lives, according to local residents. Myitkyina’s public hospital wards are full of dengue patients and many residents are seeking medical attention in private clinics ... |
| News - Health Written by AP Monday, 27 July 2009 13:51 | | | Shrunken to 30 pounds of skin and bones, Ma Moe could barely walk when she arrived on the doorstep of the clinic nearly two years ago. AIDS had killed her husband three years earlier, and it was slowly killing her... |
| News - Health Written by Xinhua Wednesday, 22 July 2009 23:56 | | | Myanmar health authorities have tightened measure against further spread of influenza A/H1N1 in Yangon, to prevent from severe consequences, sources with the Yangon municipal authority said on Wednesday... |
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