By Jennifer Zurick | Executive Director
In 2019, Burma Humanitarian Mission supported Backpack Medics operating in isolated regions of Burma where the Burma Army continues to wage an aggressive campaign against the country’s ethnic minorities.
For over 7 decades, Burma’s ethnic minorities have endured oppression. As part of a community-based response, the ethnic minority groups formed backpack medic teams to care for their own.
In 2019, BHM’s backpack medic teams:
- Supported a population of 78,183 people
- Treated 23,722 patients
- Delivered 1,116 babies
- Trained 22 new medics
- Provided 1,858,282 doses of medicine and supplements
- Provided 10,151 de-worming treatments to children
- Provided 10,863 vitamin A treatments to children
- Achieved an Infant Mortality Rate of 2.7 deaths per 1,000 births – down from 135 deaths per 1,000 births from the baseline year of 2002-2003.
- Achieved a Maternal Mortality Rate of 1.6 deaths per 1,000 births – down from 7.2 deaths per 1,000 births from the baseline year of 2002-2003.
Backpack Medics focus on three core programs:
Project reports on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.org by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.
If you donate to this project or have donated to this project, you can receive an email when this project posts a report. You can also subscribe for reports without donating.
Support this important cause by creating a personalized fundraising page.
Start a Fundraiser