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 ...

In earthquake-shattered central Myanmar, people are sleeping in the streets in fear of buildings collapsing, facing early monsoon rains and the risk of waterborne diseases, the UN warned on Tuesday.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Myanmar declared a state of emergency. Buildings in Mandalay have toppled; fires have reportedly broken out; hospitals are overwhelmed.

Hospitals are overwhelmed ... The Indian Army will help set up a field hospital in Mandalay and two navy ships carrying supplies are heading to Myanmar’s commercial capital of Yangon.

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 ...

The Malaysian prime minister will meet with the leader of Myanmar’s military junta on Thursday to ask him to extend the ...