OVERVIEW

The Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) recognized 271 incidents of violence towards or obstruction of well being care in Myanmar in 2022, a lower from 474 in 2021. In these incidents, 112 well being employees have been arrested and 27 have been killed, undermining well being care suppliers’ skill to keep up protected staffing ranges to successfully meet affected person wants. In addition, well being amenities have been broken or destroyed on not less than 46 events and raided 32 occasions, impacting the inhabitants’s entry to well being care. A complete of 103 incidents have been associated to the continued political protests following the February 2021 army coup. The remaining 168 occurred within the context of armed conflicts that erupted earlier than and after the coup. This factsheet relies on the dataset 2022 SHCC Health Care Myanmar Data, which is offered for obtain on the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX).