Myanmar nurses treat Covid patients in secret clinics away from junta eyes

With bags packed, a handful of healthcare workers are always ready to flee as they find themselves at the forefront of a civil disobedience movement against the February coup amid the Covid pamndemic.

A handful of Myanmar nurses hiding from the junta have been running makeshift clinics to treat Covid patients and resistance fighters with medicine smuggled past military checkpoints.

With bags packed, they are always ready to flee as healthcare workers find themselves at the forefront of a civil disobedience movement against the February coup and a crackdown on dissent that has killed more than 1,300, according to a local monitoring group.