MSF urges Myanmar to allow it to resume work as health crisis worsens


  • World
  • Friday, 15 Aug 2014

Rohingya Muslims are seen in their home at a village in Buthidaung, northern Rakhine state June 6, 2014. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun/Files

YANGON (Reuters) - An international medical group has urged the Myanmar government to follow through on a commitment to let it resume work in one of the poorest parts of the country, warning that healthcare there has seriously deteriorated since it was expelled.

The government ordered the group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) out of the western state of Rakhine in February after the group said it had treated people it believed were victims of sectarian violence.

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