Health staff who joined the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) have been evicted from their staff homes since the army and police have occupied Homalin Township People’s Hospital in the upper Sagaing Region on March 10th.

A local from Homalin Township said: “The army and police occupied the hospital. I heard the news that the army will assign duties to military doctors here.”

On the morning of March 10th, the township police officer and the head of the Township General Administration Department told the CDM staff that they would provide   security, if CDM staff cooperated with them. If not the health staff were to get out of the staff quarters before the noon of March 11st.

As around two-thirds of the health staff from Homalin Township People’s Hospital (100-bed) joined the CDM had been forced to leave the   hospital compound.