Thursday, February 13, 2025

Was she murdered by the clinic to "prove a point"??!!-----?!-----US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off

Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. 
Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps - Sarah Newey 
  • A 71-year-old woman has died after her oxygen supply was cut off when the United States announced a freeze on aid funding.
  • Pe Kha Lau, a refugee from Myanmar living in a displacement camp in neighbouring Thailand, died four days after she was discharged from a USAID-funded healthcare facility operated by the International Rescue Committee (IRC).
She is thought to be one of the first people to have died as a direct result of Washington’s decision to freeze all funding for aid projects for 90 days...
The organisation operates clinics that cater to roughly 80,000 people in nine refugee camps close to the Myanmar border, but abruptly closed and locked seven out of its nine hospitals to comply with the uncompromising US directive. 
The agency may be subject to an exemption as it offers lifesaving assistance, but it is not yet clear when a waiver could be issued...

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