YANGON- Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has offered medical treatment assistance for Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Rakhine State to the Ministry of Health and Sports, according to the MSF’s announcement released yesterday.

The announcement reported that the MSF are concerned about the IDPs that had fled from their villages in Rakhine State due to the skirmishes between the military and the Arakan Army (AA).

MSF claims that they are now ready to provide aid in Sittwe and Maungdaw Townships.

The MSF is very experienced in emergency rescue activities and thus claims apt for providing healthcare assistance in across Myanmar in emergency situations. For example, MSF carried out mobile healthcare services during 2015 floods and donated blankets, food rations and drinking water for flood victims.

Moreover, they also carried out sanitation tasks for drinking water tanks in Rakhine State as well as educative talks about dengue fever had been held in Sagaing Region.

The MSF is now opening mobile clinics at the refugee camps, especially in far-flung villages within Rakhine State, aftermath of the violence in June of 2012.

MSF launched humanitarian activities and pro-bono healthcare services in Myanmar since the beginning of 1992. At present, they are providing healthcare services for the rural health department and mobile clinics as well as launching specialized health projects such as for TB and HIV.

Other basic healthcare services such as a healthy reproductive system educational project was also carried out in Rakhine, Shan and Kachin States and Yangon Region.