By Jennifer Zurick | Executive Director
Burma Humanitarian Mission supports Burma’s ethnic minority backpack medics who operate throughout Burma’s conflict zones. The people and villagers in these areas have endured an epic health crisis – where infant, child and overall morbidity and mortality rates rank among the worst in the world. The United Nations had characterized the attacks and oppression by the Burma army as war crimes.
In 2021, we continued our support for 36 teams. Recruited from the villages they will serve, these backpack medic teams traveled throughout Burma’s most isolated, oppressed and vulnerable areas – primarily western, northern and eastern Burma. The medic teams travel to 9-12 isolated villages or Internally Displaced Person camps (IDP) each month. The teams provide mobile medical care to isolated villages and internally displaced person camps. We recruit Backpack Medics from the ethnic minority peoples, train new medics, match them with existing teams and outfit the teams with medicine and supplies. In 2020, our 36 teams treated 19,225 patients. They succeeded in reducing malaria morbidity from 11.8% to 0.5% of the population and dysentery morbidity from 2.8% to 0.3%. Most notable, they reduced infant mortality rates from 135 deaths/1,000 births to 2.4/1,000 and maternal mortality from 7.2 deaths/1,000 births to 1.6/1,000.
By Jennifer Zurick | Executive Director
By Jen Zurick | Executive Director
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