The board revoked the business licenses of three private hospitals in Myanmar’s central Mandalay region, it announced this week.
Palace, City and Kant Kaw hospitals had already been told to stop accepting patients because they were using personnel from the civil disobedience movement.
An order signed Monday by Dr. Myat Wunna Soe, secretary of the board-led Private Health Industry Core Group, said the licenses were revoked because the hospitals failed to comply with the licensing rules in Section 19 ( a) of the Law Relating to Private Health Services.
This vague clause stipulates only that “a person obtaining a license for any private health care service shall … comply with the terms and conditions of the license.”
The board arrested urologist and kidney surgeon Dr. Win Khaing on December 25 last year while working at Palace Hospital.
The Mandalay University professor had been participating in the civil disobedience movement following the February 2021 coup.
The junta detained several more doctors from the Mandalay disobedience movement in the days after their arrest.
On January 1, 2023, the board ordered the temporary closure of five Mandalay hospitals, including Palace, City and Kant Kaw.
No announcement has been made about the other two hospitals.
RFA calls to the board’s spokesman for the Mandalay region, Thein Htay, seeking comment on the decision to revoke the licences, went unanswered.
The junta has cracked down on doctors who voice opposition to the army, firing 557 and revoking their medical licenses for one year.
The Ministry of Health of the shadow Government of National Unity announced on April 20 this year that 71 health workers had been killed and 836 arrested in the more than two years since the coup.
It said the junta attacked and seized equipment from 188 clinics and hospitals, damaged 59 ambulances and seized 49 more.
Translated by RFA Burmese. Edited by Mike Firn.
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