The Myanmar nurses dodging drones to graduate from a secret jungle school
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This week, the first students completed a three-year degree course, ready to treat displaced people and pro-democracy fighters unable to risk government-run hospitals It was a remarkable, but secretive, ceremony that took place earlier this week for a class of 21 students graduating with nursing degrees in Myanmar. Hidden away from the spy drones of the country’s military junta, and working around internet blackouts, the students had trained as part of an underground health system, which has been evolving in Myanmar since the coup in February 2021 crushed a pro-democracy uprising and ignited civil war. “Safety is never guaranteed,” says Khun Sue Reh, 23, who on Monday was among the group graduating with the specially designed three-year nursing qualification. Continue reading...