More healthcare staff in Taunggyi, Shan State, have been infected by COVID-19 virus and they have no enough healthcare staff to assign duty, according to the Department of Public Health for Taunggyi.

Around 130 healthcare staff are assigned in Taunggyi to control and prevent COVID-19 virus and to provide healthcare services for the public.

“We are doing our routine by dividing two groups. We are also administering vaccine injection, childbirth, healthcare services for elderly and patients with hypertension, diabetes and heart diseases. If we prioritize taking care of COVID-19 patients, patients with other diseases will suffer. If the COVID-19 outbreak happened in Yangon and Mandalay, our healthcare staff helped them. If the same thing happens to Taunggyi, they will help us back. We cannot predict it. We are doing campaigns to educate about the control and prevention of COVID-19 in six markets in Taunggyi and we have to ask help from the state public health department and other government departments as we have not enough healthcare staff,” said Dr Moe Tun, Head of Department of Public Health for Taunggyi.

A total of six nurses, sent to Yangon to take duty at COVID-19 treatment centers, are found infected with COVID-19 virus and healthcare staff and people, who have contact with them, are kept in quarantine. A nurse, who had contact with them, is infected and the house located in Kanbawza Street, Thittaw Ward, is placed on lockdown on December 7. There are nurses, who are duties at private clinics.

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