Thai doctors treat Myanmar's deaf

Thai doctors treat Myanmar's deaf

YANGON (AP): A visiting team of 14 Thai doctors has performed more than a hundred operations and treated more than a thousand people afflicted with hearing problems in Myanmar, a government press release said yesterday.

The team, led by Dr. Soonthorn Antarasena of Rajathevi Hospital in Bangkok, visited Myanmar as volunteers to commemorate 50 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

The team, together with Myanmar specialists, performed 89 operations and treated 701 cases of hearing loss in Pyay and 73 operations and 709 cases in Mawlamyine, both in central Myanmar.

Hospitals and medical care in Myanmar, slowly opening to the outside world after 26 years of socialist isolationism from 1962 until 1988, are years behind that of neighboring countries.