Myanmar: Hospital staff on strike in protest over coup by 'illegitimate military regime'

 

Myanmar: Hospital staff on strike in protest over coup by 'illegitimate military regime'

Student and youth groups also join the civil disobedience campaign after Myanmar's military seized power on Monday.

Wednesday 3 February 2021 10:21, UK

A Myanmar citizen holds up a picture of leader Aung San Suu Kyi after the military seized power in a coup in Myanmar, outside United Nations venue in Bangkok, Thailand February 2, 2021. REUTERS/Jorge Silva
Image: A Myanmar citizen joins a protest outside a UN building in Thailand's capital Bangkok
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Staff at 70 hospitals and medical departments in 30 towns across Myanmar have gone on strike to protest against the coup that ousted elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

In a statement, the newly formed Myanmar Civil Disobedience Movement said the army had put its own interests above a vulnerable population during the coronavirus pandemic which has killed more than 3,100 people.

"We refuse to obey any order from the illegitimate military regime who demonstrated they do not have any regards for our poor patients."

Myanmar soldier looks on through a windshield as he sits inside a vehicle in front of a Hindu temple in the downtown area in Yangon, Myanmar, February 2, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer
Image: A Myanmar soldier on patrol in Yangon

"I want the soldiers to go back to their dorms and that's why we doctors are not going to hospitals," one 29-year-old medic in Yangon told Reuters news agency on Wednesday.

"I don't have a time frame for how long I will keep on this strike. It depends on the situation."

Student and youth groups have also joined the civil disobedience campaign.


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