MSF teams provided medical assistance at quarantine sites and worked with the Ministry of Health and Sports (MoHS) during the COVID-19 outbreak in Rakhine state. The MSF Myanmar Facebook page continues to share COVID-19 prevention and health promotion messages. Read the full statement > How MSF is fighting COVID-19 in Myanmar Alongside the arrests, the reports of violence against protestors, and the potential escalation of this violence, are greatly concerning." This puts the safety of the wider public at risk, with mass detainments likely leading to further outbreaks of COVID-19. "The arrests and widespread restrictions following the recently imposed ‘state of emergency’ have the potential to severely interrupt the lifesaving health care that MSF and others have been providing to some of the most vulnerable people in Myanmar. “MSF is gravely concerned about the recent unlawful arrests and detainment of health care workers and people from the wider general public following the military coup in Myanmar on February 1, 2021. On February 17, 2021, Benoit de Gryse, operational manager in Myanmar for the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), issued a statement expressing concern for public health and safety following the recent military coup. MSF statement following military coup in Myanmar
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