Myanmar: Health Services

(asked on 30th July 2024) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of attacks against health (a) workers and (b) facilities in Myanmar.


Answered by
Catherine West Portrait
Catherine West
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 5th September 2024

The UK has repeatedly condemned the Myanmar military's attacks against health workers and health facilities in public statements and at multilateral fora, including the UN Security Council. We are promoting accountability by providing funding to the UN's Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar and to the Myanmar Witness project, which documents human rights abuses, including attacks on health workers and facilities, for use in future prosecution. We have also integrated digital approaches into our healthcare programming, such as providing over 70,000 tele-medicine consultations, to enable conflict-affected communities access to qualified health workers.

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