2023 Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) Factsheet
Based on Insecurity Insight data, the SHCC identified 418 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in Myanmar in 2023, compared to 280 in 2022. In these incidents, 37 health workers were killed; health facilities were damaged or destroyed, and occupied. In addition, 102 health workers were arrested and 37 were killed. Hospitals continued to be damaged, mostly by explosive weapons and increasingly used as military bases by the Myanmar armed forces, frequently triggering further attacks by opposition forces. The factsheet is available in English.
A Tragic Milestone: Over 1,000 Attacks on Health Care in Myanmar Since the February 2021 Military Coup
Hospitals have been raided and occupied and ambulances shot at. Health workers have been arrested, injured, and in some cases killed in close-range shootings. They have also been prevented from treating wounded protesters and emergency medical teams have been shot at with live rounds while trying to retrieve or treat injured civilians. Insecurity Insight monitors such attacks.
This data is available to download and can be explored visually using our interactive Attacked and Threatened: Health Care at Risk map.