Myanmar’s doctors vow to shut hospitals in anti-coup protests (Update)

Medical staff make a three finger salute with red ribbons on their uniform at the Yangon General Hospital in Yangon on Feb 3, 2021 as calls for a civil disobedience gather pace following a military coup detaining civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. - AFP

YANGON (Bloomberg): Myanmar’s doctors have vowed to shut hospitals across the country as public protests intensified amid calls to defy the new military regime that took control of the government and seized civilian leaders in a coup on Monday (Feb 1).

A "Civil Disobedience Movement” started by pro-democracy activists including medical professionals announced on social media Wednesday that more than 70 hospitals and medical departments would stop work in protest of what it called an "illegitimate” government.