By Jennifer Zurick | Executive Director
Since 1999, Burma Humanitarian Mission has partnered with the Backpack Health Worker Teams (BPHWT) to recruit, train and outfit teams of backpack medics and health workers. Ethnic minorities from the Karen, Kachin, Shan, Pa’laung, Mon, Chin, Rohingya communities comprise BPHWT – in all leadership and field team roles. The backpack teams operate in their respective communities. The typical team consists of:
While the medics travel to 9 to 12 villages each month, the VHV and TBA remain in their homes. The backpack teams are outfitted with an array of basic medicine: Penicillin, Amoxicillin, various anti-malarial treatments (quinine, artesunate, etc) – more than 55,000 doses of medicine for the year. The teams also rely upon more than 3,000 individual medical supply items, such as bandages, gauges, syringes, stethoscopes and thermometers.
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