Burmese Vice President Sai Mauk Kham has criticized the pace of health care reform, the New Light of Myanmar newspaper reports. In a meeting Tuesday with the 19-member National Health Committee, he said that although the government had approved a four-fold increase in its health budget since 2011, “there has been no significant health care standard provided to the public,” the state-run newspaper reported Wednesday. He said wealthy Burmese spent hundreds of millions of dollars for medical treatment overseas, and he called for the establishment of at least one international-standard hospital in the country as soon as possible to “keep that sort of expenditure at home.”
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