Pandaw Charity & Medical Action Myanmar

Many of our passengers have supported the Pandaw Clinics, set up 15 years ago with seven clinics in the Bagan area. A year ago, we stepped back from direct involvement as, with the current civil war raging through Myanmar, we could not get funds in and lost contact with the local trustees.

Despite this, the seven clinics have survived and indeed thrive under the administration of a Buddhist organisation. In 2017 we had opened a central clinic in the grounds of a large monastic estate just outside New Bagan, which being Buddhist enjoyed protection from government interference. This religious organisation has now taken over the clinic’s management and fund raising from local sources to keep the clinics going. The clinics are we are glad to say well managed and well-funded and to hand over to local control is a happy outcome.

Since then, we have formed an association with a Dutch and UK-registered charity called MAM (Medical Action Myanmar) and following the coup of 2021 have been actively supporting MAM and through MAM are able to get funds into the country.

MAM was established in 2009 with a clinic in a Yangon slum and since then has expanded to 18 clinics that last year provided 350,000 consultations mainly in remote communities and urban slums. Each treatment costs an average of USD2.50 which includes diagnosis, treatment and medication. In addition, MAM supports 2,300 community health workers, many in inaccessible areas who last year provided 1.6 million consultations. Best known are their motorbike doctors who undertake perilous journeys over mountain passes across raging rivers in the Himalayas.

From our Pandaw Charity fund we have been able to financially assist MAM in its invaluable work. Currently, with a full-blown civil war raging, not just in the hill areas but now in the Irrawaddy and Chindwin valleys, with fighting just a few miles from Bagan, MAMs work has become more critical than ever.

As populations are displaced by the movement of armies and the destruction of villages and small towns from the air, there is a refugee crisis with many people thrown into makeshift camps with little sanitation, food or medical care.

A humanitarian crisis is unfolding that is not being reported in the disinterested legacy press but check out Frontier Myanmar and The Irrawaddy websites and sign up for their bulletins on the links below.

Never more than now is there a need to help the people of Burma and we believe that MAM is probably the most direct and efficient way of doing this.

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For more information on MAM: https://mam.org.mm

For more information on Pandaw Clinics: https://www.pandawclinics.com

For updates on what is happening in Myanmar: https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/ https://www.irrawaddy.com/