22/ May/ 2018
Retired farm labourer U Maung Pain, 78, lives in Kywe Tae, a village a few kilometres outside Sittwe, capital of Myanmar’s Rakhine state.
Every Friday he attends the Myanmar Red Cross Society’s mobile health clinic which comes to his village each week as part of a programme helping communities affected by violence and population movement.
“I come every week for a check-up and I find it really helpful. I have high blood pressure, but at the moment I also have a cough and recently I’ve been having trouble sleeping.”
“The doctor checked my blood pressure and gave me some medicine to help my blood pressure, for the cough and to help me sleep. She also gave me some multi-vitamins.”
“If the Red Cross didn’t run this clinic I would have to go to the town hospital which is an hour away over bad roads, which would be too hard for me at my age.”
“This clinic has been great for me and for the whole village. The hospital is really expensive, but in this clinic care is free, it’s been a real benefit to everyone here.”
