Myanmar’s Doctors Vow to Shut Hospitals in Anti-Coup Protests
- More than 70 hospitals and medical departments to halt working
- Online movement grows, calls military regime ‘illegitimate’
Health workers at the Yangon General Hospital in Yangon, Myanmar on Feb. 3.
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Myanmar’s doctors have vowed to shut hospitals across the country as public protests intensified amid calls to defy the new military regime that took control of the government and seized civilian leaders in a coup on Monday.
A “Civil Disobedience Movement” started by pro-democracy activists including medical professionals announced on social media Wednesday that more than 70 hospitals and medical departments would stop work in protest of what it called an “illegitimate” government.