Click to play videoThai-Myanmar border: Even before the recent violence, life under Myanmar’s iron-fisted regime has been extremely harsh for many people.
Little baby Ko Ko is just eight-months-old and he may not survive a whole year.
Ravaged by pneumonia, doctors say he is clinging to life. His twin brother Nyi Nyi is already dead.
For three long days, his desperate mother trekked through Myanmar’s jungle searching for a clinic in Thailand, hoping to save her last son.
“I was terrified. I thought that we would never get here. She told us if it weren’t for this place, he wouldn't stand a chance,” says Ko Ko’s mother.
With few opportunities to get even basic medical care in their own country, for many in Myanmar, the Thai clinic is their only hope.
Farmers like 28-year-old Pu Li, caught up in a decades old ethnic civil war have paid a terrible price. Human rights groups accuse Myanmar’s military of mining areas it wants to depopulate.
"Since my legs were blown off, others in my village are so scared, he tells us. But they still farm the land. If they didn't, we would have starved," says an amputee.
Dr Ccynthia Maung founded the clinic in 1989 and says she's determined to keep on helping, especially as public health in Myanmar, she says, is getting worse.
“The people are suffering from malaria, war casualties, nutritional problems and HIV/AIDS. They would have died if they wouldn’t have come to the clinic,” says Dr Maung.
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