Along Thailand’s border with Burma, tens of thousands of refuges have few health-care options. At the Mae Tao clinic, health care workers offer advice for expectant mothers, dental emergencies, prosthetic limbs and medicine to ward of the effects of HIV.
Thai Clinic Offers Health Care for Burmese Refugees
Refugees from eastern Burma waiting for treatment in the waiting room of the surgery department of the Mae Tao clinic in the western Thai border town of Mae Sot, May 7, 2011.
A refugee from eastern Burma (2nd R) receiving treatment on his amputated leg at the Mae Tao clinic in the western Thai border town of Mae Sot, May 10, 2011.
Refugees from eastern Burma waiting for treatment at the Mae Tao clinic in the western Thai border town of Mae Sot, May 7, 2011.
Migrant workers from Burma hold their children as they stand near a portrait of Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the Mae Tao clinic in the Thai border town of Mae Sot, November 10, 2010.
A woman from Burma brings her child to the Mae Tao clinic in Mae Sot, in northwest Thailand, October 13, 2010.
Patients from Burma pass the time at Mae Tao clinic in Mae Sot, in northwest Thailand, October 13, 2010.
A terminally ill patient and an amputee who lost legs to land mines, both from Burma, rest at the Mae Tao clinic in Mae Sot, in northwest Thailand, October 13, 2010.