Myanmar health care broken under military rule

ZEE PHYU KWIN, Myanmar (AP) — In her long scarlet sarong, crisp white shirt and nurse’s cap pinned neatly in place, Khin Aye Nwe looks as though she belongs in a modern hospital. Instead, the midwife’s clean sandals scuff across the dusty cement floor of a dilapidated clinic in Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta.

She covers a territory spanning 15 villages with 3,000 people, delivering babies, immunizing children and treating everything from malnutrition to malaria in an area where 80 percent of young children and pregnant women are anemic.