3rd Quarter 2012 Dear Friends,  Here is BCMF’s Three Month Summary for the period July to September 2012. In this past quarter, BCMF has seen a total of 35 new patients, averaging more than 10 per month. Additionally, BCMF has had a total of 316 follow-up visits from existing patients this quarter. Download our most recent report […]

Hser is a 1-year-11-month-old boy with a large mass on the right side of his face and neck. His family lives in Hteet Moo Hta village in Myawaddy district. His parents were rice farmers but make their living as day laborers. His mother currently does not work as she is busy caring for him and […]

Nan Yu is a twelve-year-old girl with cardiac disease who first came to BCMF in May 2012. When she was nine years old, she contracted Dengue Fever and went to Yangon Hospital for treatment.  While there, doctors also diagnosed Nan Yu with cardiac disease.  She continued to go to Yangon Hospital for follow-up appointments and […]

Yan Naing is 17 years old. Although his parents want nothing more than for all their 5 children to be educated, Yan Naing dropped out of school this year because he could no longer cope with the walk to school. Yan Naing has cardiac disease which causes him severe shortness of breath on exertion. Like […]

La is an 8-year-old boy suffering from a blood condition. Specifically his blood has a low platelet count (he could be suffering from a condition known as thalassaemia). He is currently in Chiang Mai undergoing treatment. He and his father were transferred directly from a small district hospital on the Thai-Burma border to Chiang Mai. […]

On 16 June 2012, Aung San Suu Kyi will receive the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to her in 1991. Name: Aung San Suu Kyi Born: 19 June 1945, Rangoon (now Yangon), Burma (now Myanmar) Residence at the time of the award: Burma Prize motivation: “for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights” Field: Human rights Here’s a video link […]

Zai is 11-years-old. She stepped into a fire when she was three. Zai lives with her family in Mae Sot on the Thai side of the Thai-Burma border. Her family moved to Thailand seven years ago from Burma to escape hardship and earn more money to support their family. Zai is the third of 8 […]

Dear friends, So far this year, BCMF has taken on 60 new cases. This includes patients on all of our programs, especially Burma Women Medical Fund (BWMF) patients who are treated locally at Mae Sot Hospital. The conditions our new cases presented with varied greatly and included: Congenital heart disease Meningocele Hydrocephalus Imperforate anus Uterine […]

Yin Yin is 8 years old and has been hearing impaired from birth – until recently, she’s never been able to hear or speak. She lives with her family on the Thai-side of the Thai-Burma border. Here is her story… Family background: In 1995 Yin Yin’s parents lost their first child to malaria. In 1997 […]