Myanmar Health Cluster Bulletin March 2026

Highlights

• One year on from the devastating earthquake that hit Sagaing on 28 March 2025, an estimated 285,000 people are left without adequate access to health care, as many health partners have ceased operations in earthquake-affected areas because of funding shortages.
• The highest number of conflict events recorded between 1 January 2025 and 31 March 2026 are from earthquake-affected areas in Sagaing (3,200 conflict events) and Mandalay (1,800) as per data published by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED).
• Between 28 March 2025 and 31 March 2026, a total of 232 attacks on health care were reported by Insecurity Insight, as compared to 73 verified attacks on health care recorded by WHO’s Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care (SSA). So far in 2026, 22 verified attacks have been recorded with 19 fatalities.
• Partners are reporting a dramatic surge in preventable skin infections in overcrowded temporary settlements in Ayeyarwaddy, Bago, Kayah, Kayin, Magway, Rakhine, and Tanintharyi: highlighting serious shortages in accessible treatment. Most cases are fungal infections and scabies, often complicated by secondary bacterial infections.
• Shortages in essential supplies for treatment of Acute Watery Diarrhoea (AWD) are reported from Rakhine IDP camps and Magway, Sagaing, Mandalay, Chin, and Rakhine.
• Jointly with WASH and Nutrition Clusters, the Health Cluster is supporting the annual updating of the AWD Readiness Action Plans at sub-national level, using the AWD Risk Index to prioritize townships for trainings and prepositioning of supplies.
• Fuel shortages and higher fuel prices as a result of the Middle East Crisis are severely impacting patient referrals for life-saving emergency treatment, potentially leading to increase in preventable disability and mortality.