Cookies on this website

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you click 'Accept all cookies' we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies and you won't see this message again. If you click 'Reject all non-essential cookies' only necessary cookies providing core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility will be enabled. Click 'Find out more' for information on how to change your cookie settings.

Accept all cookies Reject all non-essential cookies Find out more

Meet Puta-O, MOCRU’s most remote clinic

MOCRU MORU

Myanmar-Oxford Clinical Research Unit (MOCRU) and partner Medical Action Myanmar (MAM) are performing a scrub typhus survey among fever patients attending the Puta-O clinic, a small, picturesque, secluded town surrounded by snow-capped Himalayan foothills in the far north of Myanmar over 1,500 km from Yangon.

Composite photo showing a landscape around Puta-O, and the route from Yangon to the Puta-O clinic in Myanmar

Myanmar-Oxford Clinical Research Unit (MOCRU) Researcher Dr Aung Pyae Phyo recently returned from Puta-O a small, picturesque, secluded town  surrounded by snow-capped Himalayan foothills (pictured right) in the far north of Myanmar.

MOCRU and partner Medical Action Myanmar (MAM) are performing a scrub typhus survey among fever patients attending the Puta-O clinic (pictured below), which is located over 1,500 km from Yangon. In this photo, a Puta-O clinic staff member dispenses medicine to a patient. The strip above the photo shows the rapid test result of the first positive case scrub typhus case found there.

Similar stories