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.
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Myanmar Earthquake Pushes a Hospital in Mandalay to Its Limits
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.
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