Welcome to the Mae Tao Clinic
The Mae Tao Clinic (MTC), founded and directed by Dr. Cynthia Maung, provides free health care for refugees, migrant workers, and other individuals who cross the border from Burma to Thailand. People of all ethnicities and religions are welcome at the Clinic. Its origins go back to the student pro-democracy movement in Burma in 1988 and the brutal repression by the Burmese regime of that movement. The fleeing students who needed medical attention were attended in a small house in Mae Sot…
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2009 Mae Tao Clinic Annual Report
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20 years of Mae Tao Clinic
Twenty Years of Health, Human Rights and Community Development in the Midst of War.
Messages From Mae Tao Clinic
20th Anniversary of MTC
20th Year Anniversary of MTC – Celebrated on19 February 2009.
Background on Burma
- Estimated population of 54-55 million (no official census has been taken since 1983).
- Over 550,000 internally displaced people (IDP) within Burma, with the largest concentration along the Thailand-Burma border.
Services
The Clinic provides medical services for Burmese migrants in Thailand and for the thousands who come from Burma each year seeking medical help. Why do they come? Essentially because there are little or no medical facilities in their local areas in Burma. Only a tiny fraction of the national budget is invested in public health.
