Myanmar, doctors who challenge the junta by treating patients in hiding

CHENNAI – They have been on the front lines since the beginning, since that February 1 last year when the military seized power by force in Myanmar. They tried strikes. Then with the boycotts of state hospitals. But after the first arrests and torture, many Burmese doctors and nurses opposed to the junta have decided to go underground and continue what is called the “White Coat Revolution” in another way: by organizing a clandestine health system parallel to that official.