Stadium hospital on winning streak

Running smoothly: Doctors working inside the intensive care unit of the Ayeyarwady Centre at the Thuwana football stadium in Yangon. — AFP

THE stadium once roared with fans during Myanmar’s top football games, but now bustles with workers wrapped in protective gear battling the pandemic.

The Ayeyarwady Centre clinic was hastily built in September when case numbers started to surge in a country with one of the weakest healthcare systems in the world.