During the peaceful protests in Myanmar after the military coup, healthcare workers in Myanmar have experienced first-hand the unjustified use of lethal force against protesters. We have worked in clinics which provide critical lifesaving treatment for the injured and have been obstructed in every possible way in giving care, threatened, attacked or even murdered for carrying out our humanitarian duties as doctors. We have asked to have our voices heard and our democracy restored, but our demands have all but fallen on deaf ears by the junta wishing to have an iron-grip control over the lives of the citizens.

Founded in April 2021, a few weeks after the coup in Myanmar and following employment of undue force and brutal crackdowns on unarmed protesters by the military junta of Myanmar, Myanmar Doctors for Human Rights Network is a network of like minded healthcare workers and individuals, from all backgrounds, medical and non-medical coming together to give a voice to the suppressed regarding healthcare.