Patients at the privately-run Yandanarpon Mental Health Hospital in Yangon in July 2020. (Frontier)

‘It’s heartbreaking’: Myanmar’s mental healthcare vacuum

Across the country, mental health patients face social stigma, inadequate care and even abuse – problems that have worsened since the post-coup healthcare collapse, but which long precede it.

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