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Rainy Season: The Season of all Dangers

Rainy season is in full-swing in Thailand and Myanmar. For us living in Chiang Mai, Thailand, that means beautiful greenery everywhere around; rainy, lazy days and the occasional slippery roads. For people in remote areas of Karen State, it means heavy rain all day and no roads at all – just mud, rocks and full-raging […]

Interview with Bwe Ah, Year 1 Physician Assistant

My name is Bwe Ah, I was born in La Boe Village, Papun Disrict (K5), Myanmar. I am 20 years old. I have five brothers and three sisters and I am the second to last youngest sibling. My parents are farmers, they grow rice and vegetables for our family’s needs. Unfortunately, in the rainy season, if […]

Health for the Hidden

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary: “In physics, resilience is the ability of an elastic material (such as rubber or animal tissue) to absorb energy (such as from a blow) and release that energy as it springs back to its original shape. The recovery that occurs in this phenomenon can be viewed as analogous to a person’s […]

A Medication’s Journey

A seemingly insignificant capsule, which we will call Mr. Capsule in this story, is manufactured in a very big and very significant city. From there, Mr. Capsule begins his 11 hour journey to his first stop. Upon his arrival, he is then repacked into a plastic “tote box” together with other fellow medications, and probably some other much-needed supplies, […]

Journey to Motherhood

Babies and healthy babies are often taken for granted. We at the T-RAD clinic have walked a pretty incredible journey with one of our women, Naw Hser Ler Moo. She initially presented to the clinic with a rather sad history. 3 pregnancies, no babies. She had carried the first two pregnancies almost all the way to term, only […]

Something More

Just before Easter this year, EMA opened a new clinic called Rain Tree Clinic in a remote part of the jungle in Myanmar. Before this facility, the people in the area had a hard day’s walk to get to the nearest medical help of any kind. Foreigners are still not allowed to go to this area. As […]

Finding the Good in Change

It’s tough to identify the single biggest challenge in our 6-month adjustment from Pennsylvania, U.S. to Ler Doh (Kyaukkyi), Myanmar. But I can tell you the biggest pleasure has been taking my kids to work with me. This change of a closer, more parallel life of work and family is a welcome change. If a job or profession in […]

EMA Student Conference 2019

On February 1st, EMA hosted the 2019 Student Conference in Ler Doh, Myanmar, featuring for the first time four years of students. The twelve new Year One students arrived from their villages the night before. This brings the total number of students in our programs to 33! The day was filled with introductions, speeches, and […]

Life is Beautiful

Life is beautiful yet complex and sometimes tragic, and sometimes all of those in one. We had been notified that a woman was stuck in labor. She had been laboring for more than 24 hours with twins; what should they do? We requested immediate transfer. Well immediate transfer is all well and good when you have […]

Trauma Training at EMA

Bryce, our visiting instructor, believes that after attending the Trauma Training, EMA’s Physician Assistant students are able to confidently manage traumatic injuries in the hard environment of rural Myanmar and to bring high quality medical care to its inhabitants. “The Physician’s Assistant students were able to attend two weeks of Trauma Training which included instruction on […]

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