The military council has ordered at least four private medical facilities to suspend operations for several months starting March 1, sources connected to the affected hospitals said.
The affected facilities include the Thamine Hospital, Kaung Hospital, Kyan Mar Thu Kha Hospital, and Myat Taw Win Hospital.
Kaung Hospital will close on March 1 and reopen on June 1, a woman with ties to the hospital said, adding that the physicians employed there were also working part-time at other hospitals and would be able to continue their patients’ treatment.
Another woman working in healthcare, who said she was familiar with the rationale for the junta’s decision, said it was an act of deliberate persecution based on allegations that the hospitals had hired people involved with the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), which organised protests and strikes in response to the military’s 2021 coup.
“The hospitals that. . .
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