Free local clinic rumoured to be shutting down
Jan 22, 2009 - A local source has reported that a clinic at Nwalaboe relocation site, north of Loikow, is likely to be dismantled at the end of January 2009.
This clinic was set up in 1996 with the support of MSF (Médecins sans Frontières), a French humanitarian organization, with the aim of providing free medical care to people who been displaced as a result of the forced relocation of villages by the Burmese military. The residents of Nwalaboe mainly come from villages located between Pon and the Salween Rivers.
It is not only Nwalaboe camp residents who make use of this clinic. Members of Burmese military families from LIB no. 250 and no. 260, as well as local people living nearby, also heavily rely on this clinic for their health needs. “If this clinic closes, locals will face a critical health problem which could lead to a higher mortality rate,’ concluded the local source.
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