At least three hospitals in the country are out of service, according to the World Health Organisation, three days after a powerful earthquake hit the country.

Patients had to lie on cardboard or directly on the concrete outside the main hospital in Mandalay. Even before the earthquake, the health care system in Myanmar was under stress. By Sui-Lee Wee ...

Here’s what to know about the challenges from the natural disaster—compounded by ongoing civil war—and where the country ...

Exhausted, overwhelmed rescuers in Myanmar's second-biggest city pleaded for help Saturday ... She was carried out on a stretcher to be embraced by her husband Ye Aung and taken to hospital. "In the ...

The North Carolina-based Evangelical humanitarian aid charity Samaritan's Purse is dispatching an emergency field hospital to Myanmar following ... the devastation has overwhelmed healthcare ...

Temporary tent hospitals have been set up across Myanmar to treat earthquake victims as many local medical facilities are damaged or overwhelmed with injured. In the capital Naypyitaw, dozens of ...

The U.S. Geological Service's predictive modelling estimated Myanmar's death toll could eventually top 10,000 and losses could exceed the country's annual economic output.

It comes as reports have said hospitals are becoming overwhelmed with ... died and another 200 injured in Myanmar, according to a doctor at Mandalay General Hospital. Many people are still missing ...

Three days after the earthquake in central Myanmar on Friday ... Mandalay's first-aid workers and fire-fighters seem overwhelmed by the lack of equipment and resources. The city, with its 1.2 ...

Hospitals in Myanmar, many of which have been damaged by the earthquake, are overwhelmed by the surge ... found herself delivering her baby as her hospital was being evacuated because of the ...

Myanmar's military chief has told ... A 118-member Indian Army Field Hospital unit is also en route to Mandalay from Agra, and will assist in providing first aid and emergency medical services.

Hospitals in Myanmar, many of which have been damaged by the earthquake, are overwhelmed by the surge ... found herself delivering her baby as her hospital was being evacuated because of the ...