Activities

• Treating common illnesses
• Provision of medicine and medical materials
• Providing treatment guideline
• Strengthening patient referral system

The BPHWT continues to deliver medical care in the 17 field areas and in this period treated at least 39,456 cases. In these six months, the BPHWT also commenced a pilot program to conduct needs assessments in Arakan and Pa O areas in cooperation with local authorities. The six main diseases being treated by the BPHWT continue to be acute respiratory infections (mild and severe) 7,165 cases; malaria (presumptive and confirmed) 5,328 cases; anaemia 4,132 cases; worm infestation 3,872 cases; diarrhoea 2,465 cases and dysentery 1,750 cases. BPHWT also continues to treat war injuries and in this period treated 78 people for gun-shot wounds, three of them children under five years of age. This is consistent with the high level of hostile military activity reported in the individual field reports. Teams also treated 14 people with landmine injuries.