According to A Saw, who is in charge of the medical unit, the medical clinic of the People’s Defense Team (Dawei-PDF) in Dawei City is providing very well medical and health treatment to the displaced people and comrades of the People’s Defense Forces in the A Shay Taw Area very well.
The Oak Awe Clinic was established on November 22, 2022, by the Oak Awe Medical Association (Dawei-PDF), and since the day the clinic opened, it has been providing emergency medical treatment including major injuries, minor injuries, internal injuries, external injuries, surgical wounds, etc., and an operating room is arranged.
The clinic has two doctors and five nurses and can produce up to 40 combat medic specialists. Since the opening of the clinic, more than 300 patients have been given the necessary medical treatment, according to A Saw who is in charge.
“There are problems with food for the patients to eat well and for the members of the medical corps to eat. Our medical team does not have a fixed cost to buy medicine. We have to rely on support organizations and donors who help themselves, so there are many difficulties in terms of budget. We also have requests from the MOH-MOD for medicine. We have not received it until today. Our monthly cost of buying medicine is always between 3,000,000 and 5,000,000 MMK. It is always necessary to buy it,” said A Saw, the person in charge.
In addition to sending medical officers and their teams to provide health care to the residents of the community, as well as assisting local IDPs and PDF troops with their health issues, providing training on basic emergency medical treatment, health education, and war disaster prevention investigations, it is known that the Oak Awe Medical Association (Dawei-PDP) is also conducting health care.