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December 28, 2009

dear all

this is the reproduction of my reply to my younger son Linn Zaw Win who sent me the original article in Myanmar and asked me about my view on the subject

မဂၤလာပါ သူငယ္ခ်င္းတို႔… အခုတင္လိုက္တဲ ့ေမးလ္ဟာ စာေရးဆရာမတစ္ေယာက္လည္းျဖစ္ ဆရာ၀န္တစ္ေယာက္လည္းျဖစ္တဲ ့အျဖဴေရာင္ရဲ ့ေမးလ္ေလးပါ….။ ေဆးပညာအသိုင္းအ၀ိုင္းရဲ ့အျမင္နဲ ့ေရးျပထားတာကို ဖတ္သင္ ့တယ္လို ့ေတာ ့ထင္လို ့ျပန္လည္တင္ျပလိုက္ပါတယ္…။ ဒီေမးလ္ဟာ သူငယ္ခ်င္းတို ့ရဲ ့ေမးလ္ေတြထဲကို ေရာက္ေကာင္းလည္း ေရာက္ေနပါလိမ္ ့မယ္…။ ဒါေၾကာင္ ့ဖတ္ျပီးသူေတြက ေက်ာ္လႊားႏိုင္ျပီး မဖတ္ရေသးတဲ ့သူေတြ ဖတ္ေစခ်င္တဲ ့ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္နဲ ့တင္ျပလိုက္ပါတယ္…..။

အမွန္တရားကို ျမတ္ႏိုးၾကပါ၊ ျပီးေတာ့ လက္ခံသင္႔မွလက္ခံၾကပါ။

ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ ့မွာ လတ္တေလာေလးကမွ အလြန္ေရပန္းစားသြားေသာ သတင္းတခုအေၾကာင္းရွင္းၿပခ်င္လုိ ့ပါ။
SSC မွာမွားယြင္းခြဲစိတ္မိလို ့ေသသြားတယ္ဆိုတဲ ့ေကာင္မေလးၿဖစ္ရပ္ပါ။
ေကာင္မေလးေသဆံုးရမႈအေပၚ တကယ္ကိုပဲစိတ္မေကာင္းၿဖစ္ရပါတယ္ ။
တကယ္ကို ေတာ္တဲ႔ကေလးတေယာက္မို႔လို႔ပါ။
ဒါေပမဲ ့ခြဲစိပ္တဲ ့ဆရာႀကီး အၿပစ္လို ့၀ိုင္းေၿပာေနႀကတဲ ့ဂ်ာနယ္လစ္ေတြကို ေတာ့ တကယ္ကိုစိတ္တိုမိပါတယ္။
အထူးသျဖင္႔ Eleven Media Group ကထုတ္တဲ႔ ဂ်ာနယ္ေတြမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ဆရာႀကီးဦးႀကည္စိုး ဆိုတာၿမန္မာနိုင္ငံမွာ နွစ္ေယာက္မရွိႏိုင္ေတာ႔တဲ ့Surgeon ဆရာ၀န္ႀကီးတစ္ေယာက္ပါ။
ေဆး (၁)၊ ေဆး (၂) ၊ ေဆး မေကြး ၊ေဆးမန္း စတဲ႔ ေဆးေက်ာင္းေလးေက်ာင္းလံုးမွာ Professor & Head ရာထူးနဲ ့ေဆာင္ရြက္ခဲ ့ၿပီး အခု retire ယူထားၿပီး အျပင္ေဆးခန္းႀကီးေတြမွာ ေအာင္ျမင္ေနတဲ႔ ဆရာ၀န္ႀကီးတစ္ေယာက္ပါ။ သူ႔လုိမ်ိဳးလူ ေက်ာင္းေလးေက်ာင္းလံုးရဲ႕ Professor ျဖစ္ခဲ႔တဲ႔ လူမ်ိဳးခုေခတ္မွာ လံုး၀လံုး၀မရွိေတာ႔ပါဘူး။ လူနာေတြေပၚမွာသေဘာထားေကာင္းသလုိ လက္ေအာက္ငယ္သား၊ တပည္႔သားသမီးေတြ အေပၚမွာလည္း ေက်ာသားရင္သားမခြဲျခားပဲ ဆက္ဆံဂရုစိုက္တဲ႔ ဆရာႀကီးတစ္ေယာက္ပါ။

အခုၿဖစ္ရပ္မွာလည္း တကယ္တန္း တာ၀န္ရွိတာ ေကာင္မေလးကို စဖ်ားကတည္းက ကုတယ္ဆိုတဲ ့ GP ဆရာ၀န္ပါ (ေအာင္ရတနာေဆးခန္းလုိ႔သိရပါတယ္)။ သူဟာ ဆရာ၀န္တေယာက္ ျဖစ္ပါရက္နဲ ့ သူ႔ဆီလာၿပတဲ ့လူနာ ေသြးလြန္တုပ္ေကြးျဖစ္ေနတယ္ဆိုတာ diagnose မလုပ္နုိင္တာ သူ ့ညံ့ဖ်င္းမႈပါ။ ေကာင္မေလးက ေလးရက္ေတာင္ဖ်ားၿပီးမွ ဆရာႀကီးဦးႀကည္စိုး ဆီကိုေရာက္တာပါ။ လူနာက ဆရာႀကီးဆီ ေရာက္တဲ ့အခ်ိန္မွာ Dengue Shock စ၀င္ေနပါၿပီ။ ၿပီးေတာ႔ေကာင္မေလးမွာၿပေနတဲ ့လကၡဏာေတြ က appendicitis (အူအတက္ေရာင္ေရာဂါ) နဲ ့ တထပ္တည္းကိုတူေနတာပါ။ ဖ်ားေနတာ၊ အန္တာ၊ ဗိုက္ႀကီးပူတာ၊ ခ်က္ညာပတ္၀န္းက်င္မွာ နာတာ၊ေသြးေႀကာေတြ၀မ္းဗိုက္မွာ ၿမင္ေနရတာ အူအတက္ေပါက္တယ္ဆိုတဲ ့appendicitis ရဲ႕လကၡဏာေတြပါပဲ။ အူအတက္ေပါက္တယ္ဆုိတာ ခ်က္ခ်င္းခြဲမွၿဖစ္တာပါ။ အဲဒါကို လူပိန္းေတာင္သိပါတယ္။ ဆရာႀကီးေနရာမွာ တၿခားနာမည္ႀကီးဆရာ၀န္တေယာက္ ဆိုလည္း မွားမွာပါပဲ။

ဒီေတာ့နည္းနည္းမွစစ္ေဆးမႈမလုပ္ဘူးလား ဆိုၿပီးေမးဖြယ္ရာရွိပါတယ္။ လူနာက စစ္ေဆးလာၿပီးသားျဖစ္ေနလုိ႔ပါ။ ေအာင္ရတနာက ဆရာ၀န္က သူတုိ႔ေဆးခန္းက ခြဲစိပ္ဆရာ၀န္နဲ႔ ခြဲဖုိ႔အတြက္ လုိအပ္တာေတြစစ္ၿပီးသားပါ။ လူနာေကာင္မေလးရဲ႕အဖြားလုပ္တဲ႔သူက သူ႔ဆရာ ဆရာႀကီးဦးၾကည္စိုးနဲ႔ပဲ ခြဲမယ္ဆုိၿပီး SSC ကုိေခၚလာလုိ႔ ဆရာႀကီးကုိ လာျပေတာ႔ ဆရာႀကီးက ECG ရိုက္ခုိင္းၿပီး ေကာင္းရင္ Operation လုပ္မယ္ေျပာၿပီး အေရးေပၚခဲြေပးလုိက္ပါတယ္။ လူနာက ဆရာႀကီးဆီ ေရာက္လာတဲ ့အခ်ိန္မွာ ေသကိုေသေတာ့မယ္ ့အေၿခအေနပါ။ စစ္ေဆးတာ dengue မွန္းသိလို ့မခြဲရင္လည္းမခြဲလို ့ေသတယ္ဆိုၿပီး ၿဖစ္လာဦးမွာပါ။ ဘာလုိ႔လဲဆုိေတာ႔ ေကာင္မေလးရဲ႕ Ultrasound အေျဖကလည္း Appendicitis ျပေနလုိ႔ပါ။ အဲဒီေတာ့ ဘယ္သူ ့အမွားလည္း ဆိုတာသာေတြးႀကည္ ့ပါေတာ့။

ၿပီးေတာ့ေနာက္တစ္ခုက ဆရာႀကီးက လူနာကို တခါပဲ လာႀကည္ ့ၿပီး ၊လက္လြတ္စပါယ္ထားတယ္ဆိုတဲ ့အေႀကာင္းပါ။ ဆရာႀကီးဟာ ဒီလူနာေရာက္မလာခင္ တစ္ပတ္ေလာက္ အလိုကတည္းက တရုတ္ႏိုင္ငံသြားဖို ့ well planned လုပ္ထားၿပီးသားပါ။ လူနာရွင္ေတြက ဆရာဦးႀကည္စိုးမွ ဦးၾကည္စိုးဆုိၿပီး by name နဲ ့ေရာက္လာတာပါ။ ဒီေတာ႔ အဘြားလုပ္သူရဲ႕ မ်က္ႏွာနဲ႔ ဆရာႀကီးက ခရီးမထြက္ခင္ေလး operation လုပ္ေပးခဲ ့တာပါ (အတိအက်ေျပာရင္ ဒီေန႔ Operation လုပ္ရင္ သဘက္ခါ ဆရာႀကီးက သြားေတာ႔မွာပါ)။ ၿပီးေတာ့လူနာ ဆံုးသြားတဲ႔ အခ်ိန္မွာလည္းဆရာႀကီးက တရုတ္မွာပါ။ သူ ့ကနဂိုတည္းက အစီအစဥ္ရွိၿပီးသား ခရီးစဥ္ကိုသြားတာပါ။ ခြဲခန္းကထြက္လာေတာ႔ လူနာကေကာင္းပါတယ္။ ဆရာႀကီးက မသြားခင္ Post-op Accessment လာလုပ္ေပးသြားပါေသးတယ္။

ဆိုလုိခ်င္တာက ဆရာႀကီးကခြဲလိုက္လို ့ေသရတာမဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ ေသမည္ ့လူနာကို ဆရာႀကီးကခြဲမိသြားတာပါ။ မဟာဇီ၀ကႀကီးေတာင္ ကုရင္းေသတဲ႔လူနာရွိခဲ႔မွာပါ။ ဒါေၾကာင္႔လည္း “မမွားေသာေရွ႕ေန မေသေသာေဆးသမား” ဆုိၿပီး စကားပံုရွိခဲ႔မွာပါ။ ေသရမယ္လုိ႔ ရွိၿပီးသားလူတစ္ေယာက္က ေသမင္းလက္က ေျပးမလြတ္ပါဘူး။ ခုေတာ႔ ဆရာႀကီးအျဖစ္က ဓားခုတ္ရာ လက္၀င္လွ်ိဳလုိက္သလုိျဖစ္ရပါတယ္။ ဒီလုိေျပာလုိ႔ လူ႔အသက္ကို တန္ဖိုးမထားတာမဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ စိတ္ရင္းေကာင္းတဲ႔ ဆရာ၀န္ေတြကို ေမးၾကည္႔ပါ။ ကုိယ္ကုေပးေနတဲ႔ လူနာ ကုမရေတာ႔ဘဲ ေရာဂါနဲ႔ေသသြားခဲ႔ရင္ လူနာရွင္ေလာက္မဟုတ္ေပမယ္႔ ၀မ္းနည္းမႈကေတာ႔ ရင္ထဲမွာ အတုိင္းအတာတစ္ခုအထိျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အဲဒါခံစားခ်က္ကုိ ေဆးရံုမွာ အငယ္ဆံုးေတြပါဆုိတဲ႔ အလုပ္သင္ဆရာ၀န္ေလးေတြေတာင္ ခံစားၾကရပါတယ္။

ၿပီးေတာ့ ေဆးရံုစရိတ္ ၁၁ သိန္းဆိုတာကလည္း ၁၁သိန္းနဲ ့တန္ေအာင္လုပ္ေပးတဲ ေဆးရံုကိုသြားလို ့၁၁သိန္းကုန္တာပါ ။ ၁၁သိန္းကုန္ေအာင္ ၀န္ေဆာင္မႈေပးခ႔ဲ လို ့ တန္သေလာက္ေပးရတာပါ။ မကုန္ခ်င္ရင္ မကုန္တဲ႔ေနရာကိုသြားလုိ႔ရပါတယ္။ အဲဒါကို Weekly Eleven ဂ်ာနယ္မွာ ေရးထားတာေတြက တကယ္ကို ဆိုး၀ါးပါတယ္။ ဘာေႀကာင္႔လဲဆိုတာ အစကမသိပါဘူး။ အဲဒီဂ်ာနယ္တိုက္ပိုင္ရွင္က ေဒါက္တာသန္းထြန္းေအာင္ ၿဖစ္ၿပီး ဆရာ၀န္အခ်င္းခ်င္း Ethic မထားပဲ ေစာ္ကားရသလဲလုိ႔ ေတြးမိပါေသးတယ္။ ေနာက္ေတာ႔မွ သူဟာ အာရွေတာ္၀င္ေဆးခန္းရဲ ့ရွယ္ယာ၀င္တဦးလည္းၿဖစ္တယ္ဆိုတာ သိရပါတယ္။ SSC ဆိုတာ ၿမန္မာနိင္ငံရဲ႕ ၿပင္ပေဆးခန္းၾကီးေတြထဲမွာမွ TOP ပါ။ ၀င္ေငြအေနနဲ႔လည္း အေကာင္းဆံုးေဆးခန္းတစ္ခုျဖစ္သလုိ ဆရာ၀န္ႀကီးေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားလည္း SSC ကိုေရြးၾကပါတယ္။ ဘာလုိ႔လဲဆုိေတာ႔ သူတုိ႔က ေကာင္းမြန္ေျပပစ္တဲ႔ ဆက္ဆံေရးရွိလုိ႔ပါပဲ။ အဲဒါေႀကာင္ ့ အာရွေတာ္၀င္ နဲ ့SSC ဟာအၿပိဳင္သေဘာမ်ိဳးၿဖစ္ေနပါတယ္။ ပိုဆုိးတာက SSC ဆုိတာ ေနာက္မွဖြင္႔တဲ႔ ေဆးခန္းႀကီးျဖစ္ၿပီး အာရွေတာ္၀င္ထက္ေအာင္ျမင္ေနလုိ႔လည္းပါပါတယ္။ အခုၿဖစ္ရပ္မွာလည္း လူနာေသဆံုးၿခင္းထက္ ဆရာႀကီးကို အသံုးခ်ကာ SSC ေဆးခန္းအား တိုက္ခိုက္ၿခင္းၿဖစ္ပါတယ္။

အေသးစိတ္မသိတဲ ့ၿပည္သူလူထုကိုထင္ေယာင္မွားေတြ ၿဖစ္ေအာင္ေသြးထိုးလႈံ ့ေဆာ္ကာ စီးပြားေရး အရသက္သက္တုိက္ခိုက္ၿခင္း ၿဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီဂ်ာနယ္တိုက္ပိုင္ရွင္ ဆရာ၀န္ကိုလည္း အေတာ္ကိုအံ ့ႀသမိပါတယ္။ သူကိုယ္တိုင္ဆရာ၀န္တေယာက္ၿဖစ္ပါလ်က္ႏွင္ ့ဒီလိုသတင္းမွားမ်ိဳးကို ေရးသားထုတ္ေ၀ရဲ တာ ဆရာ၀န္စိတ္ဓာတ္မရွိၿခင္းပင္ ၿဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီလိုဆရာ၀န္မ်ိဳးႏွင္ ့ကုသမည္ ့လူနာမ်ားအတြက္လည္း ရင္ေလးမိပါတယ္။ အင္းေလ ေဆးမကုစားတတ္ရွာလုိ႔ပဲ ဂ်ာနယ္တုိက္ပိုင္ရွင္ ဘ၀နဲ႔ သူမ်ားေတြကုိ ပုတ္ခတ္ၿပီး စားေသာက္ေနရတဲ႔ဘ၀ ျဖစ္ေနရတာေပါ႔ေလ။ ႀကားထဲက ဓားစာခံ ၿဖစ္သြားရတဲ ့ဆရာႀကီးဦးႀကည္စိုးမွာလည္း နာမည္ နဲ႔ ဂုဏ္သိကၡာထိခိုက္ရပါတယ္။ ဆရာႀကီးအတြက္ ဆမ အပိတ္ခံရၿခင္းသည္ ဆရာႀကီး၏ စီးပြားေရးမ်ားကိုထိခိုက္ၿခင္းမရွိေပ။ ဆရာႀကီးက ေအးေအးေဆးေဆးေဂါက္ရိုက္ အနားယူၿပီး ကမာၻပတ္ေနႏိုင္သည္႔အထိ ခ်မ္းသာပါသည္။ လူနာမ်ားက ၾကည္ျဖဴစြာေပးအပ္ေသာ သမာအာဇီ၀ ဥာဏ္ပူေဇာ္ခမ်ားႏွင္႔သာ ခ်မ္းသားေနျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ေဒါက္တာ သန္းထြန္းေအာင္ကဲ႔သို႔ ၀ိသမေလာဘတက္ သူမ်ားကုိပုတ္ခတ္ ၿပိဳင္ဆုိင္မွ စားရေသာက္ရသံုးရသူမဟုတ္ပါ။

Eleven Media Group ႏွင္႔ပင္ အားမရလုိ႔ ဗလာစာအုပ္ေတြထုတ္တာ အဲဒီအတြက္ တျခားတံဆိပ္ေတြအေပၚ ဘယ္လုိေတြအေကာက္ႀကံခဲ႔တာ၊ ေနာက္ 90:00 Minute ဂ်ာနယ္အေပၚေဂ်ာက္ခ်ခဲ႔တာ၊ ခုလည္း SSC ေဆးခန္းကို မေကာင္းႀကံျပန္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ္႔လည္း ခု SSC ေဆးခန္းက ဘာမွမျဖစ္သလုိ၊ 90:00 Minute ဂ်ာနယ္ကလည္း ေအာင္ျမင္လ်က္ပါပဲ၊ Eleven Sports ဂ်ာနယ္ဆုိတာကလည္း အိမ္သာသံုးစကၠဴသာသာ စကၠဴေတြကို ဂ်ာနယ္ထုတ္ၿပီး သူမ်ားထက္ေစ်းႀကီးေအာင္ေရာင္းေနတဲ႔ ျပည္သူေတြက်န္းမာေရးေတာင္ထိခုိက္ႏိုင္တဲ႔ စကၠဴအမ်ိဳးအစားျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဆရာ၀န္ေတြမွာ သမားတို႔ေစာင္႔ထိန္းအပ္ေသာဂုဏ္အရည္အခ်င္းဆုိၿပီး Rule (Oak) of Geneva ဆုိၿပီးကို အခိုင္အမာရွိပါတယ္။ ခုေတာ႔ ေဒါက္တာ သန္းထြန္းေအာင္ဆုိတာ ဆရာ၀န္လုိ႔ေျပာရမွာေတာင္ ရွက္ဖို႔ေကာင္းေနပါၿပီ။ တကယ္ေတာ႔ ဦးသန္းထြန္းေအာင္ အျဖစ္နဲ႔အသိအမွတ္ျပဳသင္႔ၿပီး ေငြရွိၿပီးထင္တုိင္းႀကဲေနတဲ႔ ေအာက္တန္းက်ေသာ စီးပြားေရးသမားတစ္ေယာက္သာျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း လူသိရွင္ၾကား တရား၀င္ေၾကျငာလုိက္ပါၿပီ။ ဒါေတာင္ Royal Eleven FC ေဘာလံုးအသင္းအေနနဲ႔ တတိယတန္းမွာ Winner FC အေပၚ စလင္းကြင္းထဲမွာ ဒိုင္နဲ႔ေပါင္းၿပီး ညစ္ပတ္ခဲ႔တာေတြ၊ ဒုတိယတန္းမွာလည္းေကာင္း၊ ပထမတန္းတြင္လည္းေကာင္း (အဲဒီေဘာလံုးအသင္းမ်ားနာမည္ေတာ႔မေျပာေတာ႔ပါ) ညစ္ပတ္ခဲ႔တာေတြ အမ်ားႀကီး အမ်ားႀကီးပါ။ ေနာက္ထပ္လူသိမခံ၀င္႔၊ ျပည္သူမ်ားမသိသင္႔ေသာ သတင္းမ်ားလည္း Eleven Business Group ႀကီးနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး အမ်ားႀကီးရွိေနပါေသးတယ္။ အထက္ကိစၥေတြမဟုတ္ပါဘူးဆုိၿပီး တရား၀င္ဂ်ာနယ္ေတြကေန ျပန္ျငင္းမယ္ဆုိလည္း ျငင္းႏိုင္ပါတယ္ ဦးသန္းထြန္းေအာင္။

ဆရာႀကီးလို လူေတာ္တစ္ေယာက္အတြက္ နိုင္ငံၿခားဆိုတာ ၀င္ေငြပိုေကာင္းပါတယ္္။ သူ ့ဘ၀အတြက္ပိုေကာင္းတဲ ့နိုင္ငံၿခားမွာမေနပဲ၊ ၿမန္မာနိုင္ငံကို အလုပ္အေကြ်းၿပဳေနတာ ဆရာႀကီးရဲ႕ေစတနာပါ။ တကယ္လို ့သင္ဆိုလွ်င္ေကာ ႏိုင္ငံအတြက္ဆိုၿပီး အနစ္နာခံနိုင္မလား ။ ဒီလိုလူတေယာက္ကို ၀ိုင္း၀န္းပယ္ထုတ္လိုက္ၿခင္းမွာ ဘယ္လို အက်ိဳးေက်းဇုူူးေတြ ၿဖစ္လာနိုင္သလဲ။ စဥ္းစားႀကည္ ့ပါ။ တကယ္တမ္းနစ္နာတာ ကၽြန္မတို ့ၿပည္သူေတြပါ။ အဲဒါကိုေကာင္းမွန္းမသိ ၊ဆိုးမွန္းမသိ သူတပါးကိုပုတ္ခတ္လိုက္ရလွ်င္ပဲ ငါဟဲ ့ဆိုၿပီးၿဖစ္ေနတဲ ့လူ ေအာက္တန္းစား၊လူၿပိန္း၊လူညံ ့မ်ားအား ကၽြန္မတို ့ေဆးေလာကအသိုင္းအ၀ိုင္းက သနားတယ္လို ့ေၿပာၿပီးဟားတိုက္ေတာင္ ရယ္ခ်င္ပါေသးသရွင္ (မီဒီယာသမား မီဒီယာသမားနဲ႔ ရတဲ႔ပိုက္ဆံကိုအရက္ေသာက္၊ အေပ်ာ္ၾကဴး၊ ရပ္ကြက္ေတြမွာ အသံုးမက်တဲ႔သူေတြ Journalist ျဖစ္ေနတာက 98% ပါ)။

တကယ္ေတာ႔ ဆရာႀကီးက ေအာင္ရတနာေဆးခန္းႏွင္႔ ထိုေဆးခန္းမွ ဆရာ၀န္ နစ္နာမည္ကိုစိုးရိမ္ပူပန္ၿပီး SSC ေဆးခန္းႏွင္႔တိုင္ပင္ကာ သူကေခါင္းခံေပးလုိက္ျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ သူက အသက္ႀကီးၿပီ ဟုိဆရာ၀န္ေလးက တက္လမ္းရွိေသးတယ္ဆုိၿပီး ဆရာႀကီးဘက္က အနစ္နာခံသြားျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ေလးစားဖုိ႔ေကာင္းေသာ ဆရာႀကီးပင္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ SSC ကလည္း အၿပံဳးမပ်က္သလုိ ဆရာႀကီးဦးၾကည္စိုးသည္လည္း ဆရာ၀န္ျဖစ္သည္မွ စၿပီး အနားေကာင္းေကာင္းမယူႏိုင္ပဲ ခြဲရစိပ္ရတဲ႔ဘ၀က ကၽြတ္လြတ္သြားကာ ေကာင္းမြန္လြတ္လပ္ စိတ္ခ်မ္းသားစြာ အနားယူသြားၿပီျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဆရာႀကီးေတာ္မေတာ္ဆိုတာကို ျငင္းခံုမေနပဲ ဆရာႀကီးႏွင္႔ပတ္သက္သူမ်ားကို ေမးႏိုင္ပါတယ္။

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ေဆးရံုေဆးခန္းလို႕သာ နာမည္ခံထားေပမဲ့ လူနာေတြအတြက္လိုအပ္တဲ့ follow up system ေတြ Investigation ေတြကိုေတာ့ လုပ္ေပးဖို႕ ပ်က္ကြက္ေနတာကို ဘယ္သူမွ သတိမထားမိၾကပါဘူး…

တကယ္တမ္းဆို ရန္ကုန္ေဆးရံုၾကီးလို ေနရာမ်ိဳးမွာျဖစ္ခဲ့ရင္ ဒီလူနာေကာင္မေလးဟာ ေသနိဳင္ဖို႕ chance အခုလက္ရွိထက္ 30-50% ေလာက္ကို က်သြားမွာေသခ်ာပါတယ္.. YGH မွာ၂၄နာရီ

တာ၀န္က် ဆရာ၀န္ေတြအသင့္ရွိေနပါတယ္.. ျပီးေတာ့ EMERGENCY အေျခအေနမွာ ရွိေနတဲ့ ဆရာ၀န္က ဘယ္ဆရာ၀န္ၾကီး ဘယ္ပါရဂူၾကီးရဲ႕ လူနာကို ျဖစ္ျဖစ္… ကာယကံရွင္ဆရာ၀န္ၾကီး မရွိေပမဲ့လည္း လိုအပ္တဲ့ ကုသမွဳေပးခြင့္ရွိပါတယ္.. အဲဒါဟာ လူနာေတြအတြက္ အရမ္းကို safe ျဖစ္ပါတယ္.. အျပင္ေဆးခန္းေတြမွာေတာ့ ပါရဂူၾကီး အထူးကုၾကီးေတြရဲ႕ လူနာဆိုရင္ ဘယ္ASကမွ ကုသခြင့္ မရွိေတာ့ပါဘူး ေသေလာက္ေအာင္ျဖစ္ေနလို႕ ေဆးထိုးခ်င္တယ္ဆိုရင္ေတာင္မွ မရပါဘူး.. အဲဒါဟာ ဘယ္သူထုတ္ထားတဲ့ စည္းကမ္းလဲဆိုေတာ့ clinic ပိုင္ရွင္ ေငြရွင္ေၾကးရွင္ၾကီးေတြ ရဲ႕ အလိုအတိုင္းပါ.. ဘာလို႕လဲဆိုေတာ့ လူနာဆီက ေငြကို မတန္တဆယူထားတဲ့အတြက္ တစ္စံုတစ္ရာ ခၽြတ္ေခ်ာ္သြားခဲ့ရင္ သူတို႕ အျပစ္မျဖစ္ေအာင္လို႕ပါ.. လူနာနဲ႕ဆရာ၀န္ဆိုတာ ဘယ္လိုမွ ခဲြျခားလို႕မရပါဘူး.. အျမဲတမ္း လူနာအတြက္ standby ဆရာ၀န္ေတြရွိေနသင့္ပါတယ္.. ျပီးေတာ့ post-op period မွာလည္း လံုေလာက္တဲ့ care ကိုမေပးနိဳင္တာ ဆရာ၀န္အျပစ္တဲ့လား.. ဒါဆို ဆရာ၀န္ဆိုတဲ့လူက ေဆးကုလည္းသူ… operation လည္းသူ.. investigation လည္းသူ.. အကုန္လံုးကို တစ္ေယာက္တည္းလုပ္ရေတာ့မယ္ဆိုတဲ့ သေဘာျဖစ္မေနဘူးလား.. ကိုယ့္ရဲ႕အမွားကို ဖံုးကြယ္ဖို႕အတြက္ ဆရာ၀န္ကို ဓားစာခံလုပ္လိုက္တာ လံုး၀ မျဖစ္သင့္ပါဘူး .. ဒီလို ထူးခၽြန္တဲ့ ဆရာ၀န္တစ္ေယာက္က ဆမ အသိမ္းခံရလို႕လည္း သူ႕ဘ၀ ပ်က္မသြားပါဘူး.. ျမန္မာျပည္မွာသာ ခုလို လူေတာ္တစ္ေယာက္ကို ဆံုးရွံဳးလိုက္ရတာပါ.. ကိုယ့္စီးပြားေရးတစ္ခုတည္းအတြက္ ဘယ္သူေသေသ ငေတမာရင္ျပီးေရာဆိုျပီး လုပ္ခ်င္ရာလုပ္.. ကေလာင္တစ္ေခ်ာင္းနဲ႕ ေရးခ်င္ရာေရးေနရင္ေတာ့ လံုး၀ကို မတရားပါဘူး။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ တာ၀န္ရွိတဲ့ SSC clinic ကိုေရာ.. မဟုတ္တာေတြေရးျပီး ဆရာ၀န္ေတြကို အပုပ္ခ်ခ်င္တဲ့ အသားထဲကေလာက္ထြက္တဲ့ weekly eleven ပိုင္ရွင္ ေဒါက္တာ အမည္ခံသူၾကီးေရာ ေမးလိုက္ခ်င္ပါတယ္..ဘယ္သူကအျပစ္ရွိသလဲဆိုတာကို..

ေရးသားသူ

ျမတ္မိုရ္.. ေဆး(၁)

ကဲေတြ့တဲ့အတိုင္းပဲဗ်ာ ..

ဒီေတာ့ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ေၿပာခ်င္တာက …အျဖဴေရာင္မဟုတ္တဲ့ အမည္းေရာင္(ေဆး-၂) – ခင္ဗ်ားတို႔ ေျပာတာမ်ားလြန္းေနၿပီ။ အမွန္တရားကုိေတာ့ျမင္ေအာင္ၾကည့္ပါ။ ကုိယ့္ဆရာကုိပဲ အမႊမ္းတင္မေနနဲ႔။ ‘ဒီကိစၥဟာ ျပည္သူေရွ႕မွာ၊ လူအမ်ားေရွ႕မွာ တရား၀င္ရွင္းတာအေကာင္းဆံုးပါ။ အဲဒီလိုရွင္းမယ္ဆိုရင္ ေဒါက္တာၾကည္စုိးရယ္၊ SSC ပုိင္ရွင္ ေဒါက္တာ ေဇာ္ထြန္းရယ္၊ ေဆးေကာင္စီဥကၠ႒ရယ္၊ Eleven က ေဒါက္တာသန္းထြန္းေအာင္နဲ႔ အျခားမီဒီယာသမားေတြ ေတြ႕ၿပီး Debate လုပ္ရင္ေကာင္းမယ္။ ဘယ္သူကမွားလဲ၊ ဘယ္သူက မွန္လဲရွင္းၾကေပါ့။ ဒါဟာ အေျဖမွန္ရဖို႔ပါ။ ဆရာ၀န္ပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္၊ အင္ဂ်င္နီယာပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္၊ ဂ်ာနယ္လစ္မီဒီယာသမားျဖစ္လာၿပီဆိုရင္ သတင္းကလည္း မွန္ေနရင္ေတာ့၊ မွန္တဲ့အတိုင္းပဲ ေရးၾကမွာပဲ။ ဒါမ်ဳိးကုိ လံုး၀ေထာက္ခံတယ္။ အဲဒီဆရာ၀န္ကုိ ငါးႏွစ္ပိတ္တာ၊ အေရးယူတာေဆးေကာင္စီကပါ။ ဂ်ာနယ္ေတြက ျပစ္ဒဏ္ေပးတာမွမဟုတ္တာ။ ဘာလို႔ ဂ်ာနယ္ေတြကုိမဲေနတာလဲ။ ပုဂၢလိကေဆးခန္းေတြ ခင္ဗ်ားတို႔ မဟုတ္တာလုပ္သမွ်ေပၚကုန္မွာစုိးလို႔လား။ ခင္ဗ်ားတို႔ေၾကာင့္ မွားယြင္းမႈေၾကာင့္ အသက္ေသဆံုးရတာ ဒီတစ္ေယာက္တည္းမဟုတ္ဘူး။ ျပည္သူေတြကုိလည္း ေမးၾကည့္လုိက္ပါ။ သတၱိရွိရင္ခင္ဗ်ားလည္း ဒီကေလာင္နဲ႔ မီဒီယာေပၚတက္ေရးေလ။ ခင္ဗ်ားတုိ႔နားလည္ဖုိ႔က ဒီကိစၥမွာ ေဆးေကာင္စီက အေရးယူတာေလးနဲ႔ၿပီးေနတာ ကံေကာင္းတယ္မွတ္ပါ။ ႏိုင္ငံျခားမွာဆုိ လူေသမႈနဲ႔ ခင္ဗ်ားတုိ႔အားလုံး ေထာင္က်ေနၿပီ။

ရန္နိုင္

ဘယ္သူေရးတာလဲေတာ့မသိဘူး ရန္ႏိုင္ဆိုတဲသူ … …အၾကံေပးထားတဲ့ Debate ဆိုတာေလးကေတာ့ေကာင္းပါတယ္…လြတ္လပ္စြာေျပာဆိုေရးသားခြင့္မရွိသမွ်ေတာ့ ၊ ညီညြတ္မမွ်တတဲ့ အခြင့္အေရး ၾသဇာ အာဏာေတြ မိုးမႊန္ေနတဲ့ ကြ်န္ေတာ္တို ့ဆီမွ လုပ္ခြင့္ေပးပါ့မလား….

တစ္ခုေျပာခ်င္ေသးတယ္…အျဖဴေရာင္ ေဆး-၂ က တရားလက္လြတ္ေျပာမေျပာ၊ ဆရာသမားဘက္လိုက္မလိုက္ေတာ့ မသိဘူး … ကိုရန္ႏိုင္ email က ဖတ္ေတာင္မဖတ္ရေသးဘူး သူတစ္ပါးကေလာင္နာမည္ကို အသားလြတ္ၾကီး အမည္းေရာင္ ေဆး-၂ ဆိုၿပီး တိုက္ခိုက္လိုက္တာ ဆိုးပါတယ္…

အခုကိစၥက ဆရာ၀န္ နဲ ့ကေလာင္ရွင္ တိုက္ပြဲလား … …

ရန္ျဖစ္မေနၾကနဲ ့ေလ … …ပိုေကာင္းေအာင္ media ကေန တိုက္တြန္းေပါ့ … ဘယ္ေဆးခန္းကေတာ့ ဘာေတြလုိတယ္..လိုအပ္တဲ့ အဆင့္အတန္းကို

၀ိုင္းတိုက္တြန္းၾကေလ …ဒါမွ ျပည္သူေတြအတြက္အက်ိဳးရွိမွာေပါ့ …by name နဲ ့ ဘယ္ေဆးခန္းရဲ ့ ၀န္ေဆာင္မႈ အျပင္အဆင္က ဘာညာေပါ့ သူတို ့အခ်င္းခ်င္း မွ်မ်ွတတနဲ ့ လူနာအက်ိဳးအတြက္ အျပိဳင္အဆိုင္ျဖစ္ေအာင္ လုပ္လိုက္ေပါ့… အဓိကက ပုံမွန္တူေတြအတြက္အက်ိဳးပါ ေဆးခန္းေတြကလာဒ္ေပးတာယူတဲ့ ကေလာင္ရွင္ေတြကို ဒီအတိုင္လြတ္မထားနဲ ့ေပါ့ .. 😉 by name နဲ ့သာေျပာ… ကိုယ္ေျပာတဲ့သတင္းကို ကိုယ္တာ၀န္ယူေအာင္ ကေလာင္နာမည္နဲ ့ ဓါတ္ပံုနဲ ့တြဲမွာ သတင္းေလာကမွာ ေရးခြင့္ေပး … …၀တၳဳ၊ကဗ်ာတို ့ရဲ ့ကေလာင္မွာ ဓါတ္ပံုမပါတာ ကိစၥမရွိဘူး အဲဒါေတြက ရသပိုင္းေလ… သတင္းမွာ ေရးသူနဲ ့ဓါတ္ပံဳမပါေတာ့ သူေရးတဲ့သတင္းက အဆိပ္အေတာက္ဆို ဘယ္သူလက္ခ်က္လဲ၊ ဘယ္သူတာ၀န္ယူမွာလဲ … ေျပာ … အဲဒါေလးလည္း လုပ္ၾကပါဦး….

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StarredNyi Win
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15 Dec (12 days ago)

lzw
I do not know the exact details regarding the case
either before or after the surgery

but my personal view is that
Prof. U Kyi Soe was in bad luck that the patient died

there has been many cases where Acute Appendicitis was diagnosed and Appendectomy done
only to find during operation that the pre-op diagnosis was wrong
the good appendix has to be removed
to prevent it from developing appendicitis later
many who abroad for good have their appendix removed
to prevent appendicitis (a common disease) and high medical costs abroad
so when the abdomen has been opened and found that the diagnosis of appendicitis is wrong
the appendectomy has to be done
even if it is not appendicitis
it is the usual procedure

diagnosis of appendicitis is a clinical one
investigations like ultrasound and blood tests are not so important
when a surgeon or a non-surgeon government doctor with operation facilities diagnose a case of appendicitis (by clinical methods: history taking, physical examination consisting of inspection, palpation and auscultation) appendectomy has to be done even if the diagnosis is later found to be wrong

the diagnosis of appendicitis might have been made by ultrasound as written
and that it was actually a case of appendicitis
I do not know
also what Prof. U Kyi Soe’s travel plans were
BUT
there was no proper investigation into the case
and the verdict was too quick
a Kangaroo court
looking for a scapegoat and early case closing (to be able to report that the problem has been solved as early as possible)
without giving thought to procedure

I will repeat again
Prof. U Kyi Soe was just unlucky
to be the man in the spot
whatever the details were

the current private hospitals have much to be desired
not being a real hospital in any sense
only being private
paying
better care
in-patient treatment clinics
with no separate wards
and ward incharge (specialist Residents)
who will take care of the patients 24 hours a day for those attending the hospital directly without consulting their specialist of choice
and also patients admitted to hospital by specialists
even in the absence of their treating specialists
because we do not have more than a few non-government specialists
our medical teaching do not permit non-government doctors to attend post-graduate medical studies
being too narrow minded
and unwilling to liberalize
even more than 20 years after Sept 1988 and the open market economy
the doors are not really open
kept nearly closed
by the authorities

Linn Zaw Win

to me

show details 16 Dec (11 days ago)

Phewwww……
After reading your reply, I realized that “ေနာက္ဆုံးေတာ့လည္း ဒီဘူတာပဲဆိုက္တာပဲ”
I also understood that Prof. U Kyi Soe was just unlucky since I first read the article from the journal.
Things are so complicated concerning with such things.
You might remember one of my friends whose one leg is supported by iron rods and walking abnormally.
I don’t remember well but as far as I remember, he said that he got shock due to the injection when he was young and you or Mom (I don’t remember) told me that it was just a bad luck of that doctor doing injection to the one who’s getting polio.
May be what I remember are a bit biased.

All (by NW) 28 Dec 2009

what lzw remembered was a classical case of doctors being blamed when someone developed paralytic polio

if a child develops polio, it is difficult to diagnose before the onset of leg weakness

at the time, the treating doctor might give injection to the patient

the injection precipitates the onset of paralysis

on the side injected (sometimes both if both sides are injected on the same day or consecutive days)

the weakness will develop (it might also develop if there had been no injection)

and the doctor is blamed (of course, if there had been no injection, he would not be blamed, but as things are, general practitioners give injections for various reasons which I will not discuss at this time)

the attitude of the public is: Hsay Htoe Hmarr Lo. ChayHtauk Thay Twarr Dae

actually it is not giving a wrong injection (medicine type) or wrong site of injection

but giving injection to a polio case which is difficult to diagnose and was not diagnosed as polio so injection was given

so unless a doctor does not give injection to all patients as a routine procedure and treat with oral drugs only, he will be blamed for the development of paralysis of his patient

if it occurs, although the paralysis was precipitated by the injection, the doctor is just being unlucky to have an early case of preparalytic polio patient come to him/her

ps

sometimes I wonder how the Buddhist teaching of Kan – Kan Ah.Kyoe applies here

does the polio patient becomes lame because of his previous misdeeds?

did the doctor meet a case of polio because of his/her past misdeeds?

or

did the doctor do a wrong thing giving injection to a patient?

I have no answer

ျမန္မာႏိုိင္ငံမွလူနာမ်ား အထူးကုဆရာ၀န္မ်ား၏ စမ္းသပ္ခံျဖစ္ေန

December 28, 2009

dear all

I first read the above article at:

http://saffrontoward.blogspot.com/2009/12/blog-post_8961.html

in my google reader and decided to distribute to my friends because it concerns problems in the private medical practice highlighted by the death of a girl following surgery for appendicitis (whether there was actual acute appendicitis or not, I do not know, as it was not officially released) and later diagnosed as Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever (whether premortem or postmortem, I do not know, for the same above reason).

There was a lot of debate regarding the case and I wrote a reply to my son Linn Zaw Win, when he asked my opinion about it and sent bcc: to some friends (about 15). I will post it after I have posted this one.

I had written a comment for this article and distributed to my friends, colleagues and co-workers (over 80 persons). I thought it would be the end to it as was the mail concerning the earlier case.

However, my friend and classmate Dr. Kyaw Lwin replied to me with his comment and distributed it to around 40 persons. I was moved that he found my commentaries worth forwarding.

This led to the next (this) step. To post it on my blog, edited of course, and maybe modified later with updates.

please read my acknowledgements at the end

all
please read the article first (in burmese) at

http://saffrontoward.blogspot.com/2009/12/blog-post_8961.html

I cannot reproduce it correctly here because of font error. But when I look at the preview, I find the words in Burmese correct.

and then my remarks (in english)

below the original article

I feel that although many points about hospitals are correct
the blame put on the treating doctor and all doctors is not
if all doctors in Myanmar are not competent, where should patients go for treatment?
it is easy to put the blame on others

HERE is the original article:

via အတၱကင္းစင္ဒီမိုကေရစီလြင္ျပင္ by wanna23 on 12/23/09

24/12/2009
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ျမန္မာျပည္၏ အႀကီးဆံုး ရန္ကုန္ေဆးရံုႀကီးပံု(အဂၤလိပ္ေ

ခတ္ ကတည္းက တည္ေဆာက္ခဲ့ေသာ အေဆာက္အဦးမ်ား ျဖစ္ပါသည္။)
ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံ ျပည္သူလူထုမ်ားမွာ အထူးကု ဆရာ၀န္ၾကီးမ်ားႏွင့္ အျခားက်မၼာေရး ၀န္ထမ္းမ်ား၏ အစမ္းသပ္ခံ ဘ၀တြင္ က်ေရာက္ေနေၾကာင္း မိခင္အား ေဆး၀ါးကုသေပးရန္ သြားေရာက္ခဲ့သူ ဘန္ေကာက္တြင္ ေနထိုင္ အလုပ္လုပ္ကုိင္သူ ျမန္မာအင္ဂ်င္နီယာ တစ္ေယာက္က ေျပာသည္။ 

ျပီးခဲ့သည့္ ရက္ပိုင္းက ရန္ကုန္ျမိဳ ့တြင္ နာမက်န္းျဖစ္ေနေသာ အသက္ ေျခာက္ဆယ္ေက်ာ္ အရြယ္မိခင္ၾကီးအား သြားေရာက္ ေတြ ့ဆံုခဲ့သူ ျမန္မာအင္ဂ်င္နီယာက “ က်ေနာ့္ အေမ တစ္ေန႔ကို ေဆးခန္းသြားျပတာ က်ပ္ေငြ ေလးေသာင္းေက်ာ္ ကုန္ပါတယ္။ ပထမေတာ့ ဒူးေဂါင္း နာတယ္ဆိုျပီး ေဆးထိုးတာေပါ့ေနာ္၊ အထူးကုေတြက ဒီေဆးလူၾကီးနဲ႔ တည့္လား မတည့္လား မသိဘူး၊

၃လေလာက္ ဆက္တိုက္ထိုးလိုက္တာ။ ေဆးကို အသက္ၾကီးတဲ့ လူဆိုေတာ့ မေခ်နိုင္ဘူး။ အထဲမွာ သြားခဲေနတယ္။ တင္ပါးမွာ ျပည္တည္လာတဲ့ အတြက္ ခြဲလိုက္ရတယ္” “အိႏၵိယတို႔၊ တရုတ္တုိ႔က အေပါစား ေဆးကုမၸဏီေတြက ထိုးေဆးေတြ စားေဆးေတြကို ေၾကညာေပးတာ ျဖစ္ တယ္။ ဆရာ၀န္တုိ႔ ေဆးခန္းပိုင္ရွင္တုိ႔က အဲဒီေဆးေတြကို ကုမၸဏီေတြက အခမဲ့ရတာ ျဖစ္တယ္။ ေရာဂါေကာင္း မေကာင္း လူနာေတြနဲ ့ စမ္းသပ္တယ္။ ေရာဂါေပ်ာက္ရင္ အျခားလူေတြကို ညႊန္ျပတယ္၊ အဲဒီေဆး နာမည္ရ သြားရင္ ဆရာ၀န္ေတြနဲ ့ေဆးခန္းပိုင္ရွင္ေတြကို ကုမၸဏီေတြက

ပိုက္ဆံေပးတယ္၊ ေရာဂါတျခား ေဆးတျခားျဖစ္တဲ့ လူကေတာ့ ေသတာေပါ့ဗ်ာ။ သူတုိ႔ အက်ိဳးအျမတ္ ကိုပဲ ၾကည့္ၾကတယ္။ လူ႔အသက္ တစ္ေခ်ာင္း တန္ဘိုးထားရေကာင္းမွန္း မသိၾကေတာ့ဘူး”ဟု ေျပာသည္။

ရန္ကုန္ မႏၱေလးႏွင့္ အျခားျမိဳ႕ၾကီး တိုင္းတြင္ အထူးကုေဆးခန္း၊ ေဆးရံုးမ်ား ျမန္မာ တစ္ႏိုင္ငံလံုးတြင္ ဖြင့္လွစ္ ထားေသာ္လည္း ကၽြမ္းက်င္ေသာ ဆရာ၀န္ႏွင့္ အစြမ္းထက္သည့္ ေဆး၀ါးမ်ား အထူးနည္းပါးေၾကာင္း လူနာရွင္မ်ားက ေျပာျပၾကသည္။

က်မၼာေရး၊ ပညာေရး ဗဟုသုတ နည္းပါးလြန္းေသာ ျမန္မာလူမ်ိဳးတို႔မွာ ဆရာ၀န္ေျပာသမွ်ယံု၊ ဆရာ၀န္ ေပးတာစား၊ အေနအထားျဖင့္သာ ရွိေနသျဖင့္ လူနာအခ်ိဳ႕မွာ ေရာဂါမ်ား ကၽြမ္းခဲ့ၾကရသည္။

အထူးကု ဆရာ၀န္ၾကီးတစ္ဦး၏ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္ခ် မွားျခင္းေၾကာင့္ ၂၀၀၄ ခုႏွစ္၀န္းက်င္က ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္၊ ေက်ာက္ျဖဴ ခရိုင္ စီမံကိန္း ဦးစီးမွဴးတစ္ဦး ေသဆံုးခဲ့ရျခင္းကို ဘန္ေကာက္တြင္ အလုပ္လုပ္္ေနေသာ ကုိ၀ဏၰက ေျပာျပသည္။

“ခရိုင္စီမံကိန္း ဦးစီးမွဴး နာမည္က ဦးစံေရႊဦး ပါ၊ အရက္လည္း မေသာက္ ေဆးလိပ္လည္း မေသာက္တတ္ဘူး၊ ပညာေတာ္လည္းေတာ္၊ တတ္လည္းတတ္တယ္၊ အသက္ သံုးဆယ္ေက်ာ္ ကတည္းက ခရိုင္အဆင့္ အရာရွိျဖစ္တာ။ အဲဒါဗ်ာ ေနမေကာင္းလို ့ ရန္ကုန္မွာ ပုဂၢလိက အထူးကု ေဆးရံုက အထူးကု ပါရဂူဆီမွာျပတာ။ အသဲေျခာက္တဲ့ ေရာဂါ ဆိုျပီး ေစ်းၾကီးတဲ့ အဆင့္ျမင့္ေဆးေတြကို ၀ယ္ေသာက္ရတာ၊ ဓါတ္မွန္ရိုက္၊ အယ္ထရာေဆာင္းရိုက္၊ အစံုပဲ တစ္လတစ္ၾကိမ္ ရန္ကုန္သြားျပရတယ္။ ၁ႏွစ္ေက်ာ္ေလာက္ ကုလာျပီးေတာ့ ေရာဂါကၽြမ္း လာျပီ။အဲဒီေတာ့မွ အဲဒီအထူးကုဆရာ၀န္ၾကီးက ေက်ာက္ကပ္ ဆရာ၀န္ၾကီးဆီကို ေျပာင္းေပးတယ္။ ေက်ာက္ကပ္အထူးကု လက္ထဲေရာက္ေတာ့ ေက်ာက္ကပ္တစ္ဖက္က လံုး၀မေကာင္းေတာ့ပဲ ေသခဲ့ရ တယ္ဗ်ာ”ဟု နီးနီးကပ္ကပ္ ေနထိုင္ဖူးသူ ကို၀ဏၰကေျပာျပသည္။

ျပီးခဲ့ေသာ ေအာက္တိုဘာ ၂၇ ရက္ေန႔က အသက္ (၁၅) ႏွစ္အရြယ္ (၉) တန္းေက်ာင္းသူ မခိုင္ရႊန္းလဲ့ရည္၊ ရန္ကုန္ျမိဳ ႔ ေရႊဂံုတိုင္ SSC အထူးကုေဆးခန္းတြင္ ေဆးကုသရင္း ေသဆံုးခဲ့ရျပီး

ေနာက္ပိုင္း ျမန္မာျပည္ ျမိဳ႕ၾကီးမ်ားတြင္ ေဆးရံု ေဆးခန္းတို ့က လူနာမ်ားကို ေတာ္ရံုႏွင့္ လက္မခံသကဲ့သို ့

လူနာရွင္မ်ားကလည္း ေတာ္ရံု ဆရာ၀န္တုိ ့အား မယံုၾကည္၀ံ့ ျဖစ္ေနၾကေၾကာင္း လူနာရွင္ မိသားစု၀င္မ်ားက ေျပာၾကသည္။ ေရာဂါ ကၽြမ္းလုကၽြမ္းခင္ အဆင့္ရွိေသာ လူနာမ်ားကုိ လက္ခံကုသရန္ျငင္းဆန္ေနၾကသည္။ အထူးကု ေဆးရံုႏွင့္ ေဆးခန္းတုိ ့တြင္ လူနာတစ္ဦးလာေရာက္ ကုသမည္ဆိုပါက သတ္မွတ္ထားေသာ စရံေငြကို ၾကိဳတင္ေပးသြင္းထားမွ လက္ခံကုသ ၾကေၾကာင္း ျမန္မာအင္ဂ်ီနိီယာက ေျပာျပသည္။

အနီးစပ္ဆံုး ထိုင္းနိုင္ငံႏွင့္ ယွဥ္ျပေျပာဆိုရာတြင္ “ဗမာျပည္မွာ ေငြကိုျပမွ ကုေပးတာ ေငြကိုမျပနိုင္ရင္ ေသသြားပေစ ေဆးကုမေပးဘူး၊ ထိုင္းမွာေတာ့ လူ႔အသက္တစ္ေခ်ာင္းက လူမ်ိဳးဘာသာမ ေရြး မရ အရလုျပီး ကုေပးတာ။ သန္႔ရွင္းမႈအပိုင္းမွာလည္း မိုးနဲ ့ေျမေလာက္ကို ကြာတယ္။ ထိုင္းက ေဆးရံုေတြမွာ ေဆးနံ႔မနံဘူး၊ အိမ္သာအနံ ့အသက္လည္း မနံဘူး၊ ဗမာျပည္မွာရွိတဲ့ ေဆးရံုေတြကို သြားၾကည့္ ေဆး\��.c�ذ�z M��M�WG��˞J��fCތ�=b�P���+��t��0�z�Q����G�CR�S�*mZ�z���e��z ��阡[��K���,Jԫ/J�i��}��o��?q�J\�!f{y��zl�@7�l��.�,��,�� ��c�tz�U�\�\��ب�Mgd �����W�l8vd��c,��W���!��q2n7f���4���W/e���”�qt��y�qv���8�.lw���ELK�VG��|\���l��n����zန႔ံေပါင္းစံု နံေနတာပဲ၊ အိမ္သာလည္း စနစ္တက်မရွိ၊ အိမ္သာထဲမွာ အမွိဳက္ပံုးလည္း မရွိေတာ့ မိန္းမေတြအသံုးျပဳတဲ့ ပစၥည္းေတြ အိမ္သာထဲမွာ ဒီအတိုင္းပစ္ခဲ့တာေပါ့၊ လက္ေဆးခန္းဆိုတာလည္း မရွိဘူး။ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံက ေဆးရံုေတြ ေဆးခန္းေတြ ထိုင္းျမန္မာ နယ္စပ္က မယ္ေတာ္ေဆးခန္းကို မွီဖို႔ ႏွစ္ဆယ္ခ်ီျပီး လိုက္ရပါလိမ့္ဦးမယ္” ဟု ျမန္မာ အင္ဂ်င္နီယာက ေျပာသည္။

http://saffrontoward.blogspot.com/မွကူးယူေဖၚျပသည္

at url:

http://saffrontoward.blogspot.com/2009/12/blog-post_8961.html

HERE is my remarks between the original article:

24/12/2009
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ျမန္မာျပည္၏ အႀကီးဆံုး ရန္ကုန္ေဆးရံုႀကီးပံု(အဂၤလိပ္ေခတ္ ကတည္းက တည္ေဆာက္ခဲ့ေသာ အေဆာက္အဦးမ်ား ျဖစ္ပါသည္။)
ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံ ျပည္သူလူထုမ်ားမွာ အထူးကု ဆရာ၀န္ၾကီးမ်ားႏွင့္ အျခားက်မၼာေရး ၀န္ထမ္းမ်ား၏ အစမ္းသပ္ခံ ဘ၀တြင္ က်ေရာက္ေနေၾကာင္း မိခင္အား ေဆး၀ါးကုသေပးရန္ သြားေရာက္ခဲ့သူ ဘန္ေကာက္တြင္ ေနထိုင္ အလုပ္လုပ္ကုိင္သူ ျမန္မာအင္ဂ်င္နီယာ
တစ္ေယာက္က ေျပာသည္။

ျပီးခဲ့သည့္ ရက္ပိုင္းက ရန္ကုန္ျမိဳ ့တြင္ နာမက်န္းျဖစ္ေနေသာ အသက္ ေျခာက္ဆယ္ေက်ာ္ အရြယ္မိခင္ၾကီးအား သြားေရာက္ ေတြ ့ဆံုခဲ့သူ ျမန္မာအင္ဂ်င္နီယာက “ က်ေနာ့္ အေမ တစ္ေန႔ကို ေဆးခန္းသြားျပတာ က်ပ္ေငြ ေလးေသာင္းေက်ာ္ ကုန္ပါတယ္။ ပထမေတာ့ ဒူးေဂါင္း နာတယ္ဆိုျပီး ေဆးထိုးတာေပါ့ေနာ္၊ အထူးကုေတြက ဒီေဆးလူၾကီးနဲ႔ တည့္လား မတည့္လား မသိဘူး

၃လေလာက္ ဆက္တိုက္ထိုးလိုက္တာ။ ေဆးကို အသက္ၾကီးတဲ့ လူဆိုေတာ့ မေခ်နိုင္ဘူး။ အထဲမွာ သြားခဲေနတယ္။ တင္ပါးမွာ ျပည္တည္လာတဲ့ အတြက္ ခြဲလိုက္ရတယ္” “အိႏၵိယတို႔၊ တရုတ္တုိ႔က အေပါစား ေဆးကုမၸဏီေတြက ထိုးေဆးေတြ စားေဆးေတြကို ေၾကညာေပးတာ ျဖစ္ တယ္။ ဆရာ၀န္တုိ႔ ေဆးခန္းပိုင္ရွင္တုိ႔က အဲဒီေဆးေတြကို ကုမၸဏီေတြက အခမဲ့ရတာ ျဖစ္တယ္။ ေရာဂါေကာင္း မေကာင္း လူနာေတြနဲ ့ စမ္းသပ္တယ္။ ေရာဂါေပ်ာက္ရင္ အျခားလူေတြကို ညႊန္ျပတယ္၊ အဲဒီေဆး နာမည္ရ သြားရင္ ဆရာ၀န္ေတြနဲ ့ေဆးခန္းပိုင္ရွင္ေတြကို ကုမၸဏီေတြက 

ပိုက္ဆံေပးတယ္၊ ေရာဂါတျခား ေဆးတျခားျဖစ္တဲ့ လူကေတာ့ ေသတာေပါ့ဗ်ာ။ သူတုိ႔ အက်ိဳးအျမတ္ ကိုပဲ ၾကည့္ၾကတယ္။ လူ႔အသက္ တစ္ေခ်ာင္း တန္ဘိုးထားရေကာင္းမွန္း မသိၾကေတာ့ဘူး”ဟု ေျပာသည္။

did the patient die because of error of treatment? that the wrong medicine was given?
was the medicine used really a new drug on clinical trial?
or did the patient died because of the negligence of the treating doctor?
how long after the abscess in the buttocks have been incised that the patient died?
was the abscess the result of the injection (that is type of medicine injected)?
or the method of injection?
or because the injection site was not massaged as written?
if the patient could not massage because of old age, why did not the family and attendants do it for the patient during their care?

did the patient die because of the terminal nature of the disease?and no other doctor could prevent death?
why did the patient and the family not change doctor when they are unsatisfied with the treating doctor?
these questions need to be investigated properly to get to the correct conclusion
most family are dissatisfied when their close ones die
but they should think clearly whether there is negligence in the treating doctor/s
they always have the option of changing doctor and hospital in Yangon
unlike in small towns, where one has to go to another town to change doctor or hospital

ရန္ကုန္ မႏၱေလးႏွင့္ အျခားျမိဳ႕ၾကီး တိုင္းတြင္ အထူးကုေဆးခန္း၊ ေဆးရံုးမ်ား ျမန္မာ တစ္ႏိုင္ငံလံုးတြင္ ဖြင့္လွစ္ ထားေသာ္လည္း ကၽြမ္းက်င္ေသာ ဆရာ၀န္ႏွင့္ အစြမ္းထက္သည့္ ေဆး၀ါးမ်ား အထူးနည္းပါးေၾကာင္း လူနာရွင္မ်ားက ေျပာျပၾကသည္။

is it real? I do not think so
is the death of the patient being blamed on the incompetence of doctors?
that other doctors are also not good? is it why they did not change doctors?
why is it that there are few good doctors in Myanmar / Yangon? (I do not agree)

if all the specialists are not good, how shall we solve the problem? (I think the accusation is false)

က်မၼာေရး၊ ပညာေရး ဗဟုသုတ နည္းပါးလြန္းေသာ ျမန္မာလူမ်ိဳးတို႔မွာ ဆရာ၀န္ေျပာသမွ်ယံု၊ ဆရာ၀န္ ေပးတာစား၊ အေနအထားျဖင့္သာ ရွိေနသျဖင့္ လူနာအခ်ိဳ႕မွာ ေရာဂါမ်ား ကၽြမ္းခဲ့ၾကရသည္။

many diseases like hypertension, diabetes mellitus and many chronic diseases like cirrhosis of liver and cancer cannot be cured and although treated, progress and complications set in till terminal stage is reached

အထူးကု ဆရာ၀န္ၾကီးတစ္ဦး၏ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္ခ် မွားျခင္းေၾကာင့္ ၂၀၀၄ ခုႏွစ္၀န္းက်င္က ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္၊ ေက်ာက္ျဖဴ ခရိုင္ စီမံကိန္း ဦးစီးမွဴးတစ္ဦး ေသဆံုးခဲ့ရျခင္းကို ဘန္ေကာက္တြင္ အလုပ္လုပ္္ေနေသာ ကုိ၀ဏၰက ေျပာျပသည္။ 

ခရိုင္စီမံကိန္း ဦးစီးမွဴး နာမည္က ဦးစံေရႊဦး ပါ၊ အရက္လည္း မေသာက္ ေဆးလိပ္လည္း မေသာက္တတ္ဘူး၊ ပညာေတာ္လည္းေတာ္၊ တတ္လည္းတတ္တယ္၊ အသက္ သံုးဆယ္ေက်ာ္ ကတည္းက ခရိုင္အဆင့္ အရာရွိျဖစ္တာ။ အဲဒါဗ်ာ ေနမေကာင္းလို ့ ရန္ကုန္မွာ ပုဂၢလိက အထူးကု ေဆးရံုက အထူးကု ပါရဂူဆီမွာျပတာ။ အသဲေျခာက္တဲ့ ေရာဂါ ဆိုျပီး ေစ်းၾကီးတဲ့ အဆင့္ျမင့္ေဆးေတြကို ၀ယ္ေသာက္ရတာ၊ ဓါတ္မွန္ရိုက္၊ အယ္ထရာေဆာင္းရိုက္၊ အစံုပဲ တစ္လတစ္ၾကိမ္ ရန္ကုန္သြားျပရတယ္။ ၁ႏွစ္ေက်ာ္ေလာက္ ကုလာျပီးေတာ့ ေရာဂါကၽြမ္း လာျပီ။အဲဒီေတာ့မွ အဲဒီအထူးကုဆရာ၀န္ၾကီးက ေက်ာက္ကပ္ ဆရာ၀န္ၾကီးဆီကို ေျပာင္းေပးတယ္။ ေက်ာက္ကပ္အထူးကု လက္ထဲေရာက္ေတာ့ ေက်ာက္ကပ္တစ္ဖက္က လံုး၀မေကာင္းေတာ့ပဲ ေသခဲ့ရ တယ္ဗ်ာ”ဟု နီးနီးကပ္ကပ္ ေနထိုင္ဖူးသူ ကို၀ဏၰကေျပာျပသည္။

was the diagnosis of cirrhosis wrong? that there was no liver cirrhosis?
was the diagnosis of kidney failure missed?
was the kidney failure present from the onset? how did they know? did the kidney specialist said that the kidney failure was present over 1 years before the patient was referred to him/her?
or did the kidney failure developed later during the treatment for cirrhosis?

regarding death of a terminally ill patient, no doctor can prevent death
it is only whether there is criminal negligence on part of the treating doctor that is the important factor
whether the diagnosis was wrong
treatment was wrong
there was negligence
or whether the patient died in spite of having the best treatment available as the condition was terminal?

ျပီးခဲ့ေသာ ေအာက္တိုဘာ ၂၇ ရက္ေန႔က အသက္ (၁၅) ႏွစ္အရြယ္ (၉) တန္းေက်ာင္းသူ မခိုင္ရႊန္းလဲ့ရည္၊ ရန္ကုန္ျမိဳ ႔ ေရႊဂံုတိုင္ SSC အထူးကုေဆးခန္းတြင္ ေဆးကုသရင္း ေသဆံုးခဲ့ရျပီး

ေနာက္ပိုင္း ျမန္မာျပည္ ျမိဳ႕ၾကီးမ်ားတြင္ ေဆးရံု ေဆးခန္းတို ့က လူနာမ်ားကို ေတာ္ရံုႏွင့္ လက္မခံသကဲ့သို ့

လူနာရွင္မ်ားကလည္း ေတာ္ရံု ဆရာ၀န္တုိ ့အား မယံုၾကည္၀ံ့ ျဖစ္ေနၾကေၾကာင္း လူနာရွင္ မိသားစု၀င္မ်ားက ေျပာၾကသည္။ ေရာဂါ ကၽြမ္းလုကၽြမ္းခင္ အဆင့္ရွိေသာ လူနာမ်ားကုိ လက္ခံကုသရန္ျငင္းဆန္ေနၾကသည္။ အထူးကု ေဆးရံုႏွင့္ ေဆးခန္းတုိ ့တြင္ လူနာတစ္ဦးလာေရာက္ ကုသမည္ဆိုပါက သတ္မွတ္ထားေသာ စရံေငြကို ၾကိဳတင္ေပးသြင္းထားမွ လက္ခံကုသ ၾကေၾကာင္း ျမန္မာအင္ဂ်ီနိီယာက ေျပာျပသည္။

အနီးစပ္ဆံုး ထိုင္းနိုင္ငံႏွင့္ ယွဥ္ျပေျပာဆိုရာတြင္ “ဗမာျပည္မွာ ေငြကိုျပမွ ကုေပးတာ ေငြကိုမျပနိုင္ရင္ ေသသြားပေစ ေဆးကုမေပးဘူး၊ ထိုင္းမွာေတာ့ လူ႔အသက္တစ္ေခ်ာင္းက လူမ်ိဳးဘာသာမ ေရြး မရ အရလုျပီး ကုေပးတာ။ သန္႔ရွင္းမႈအပိုင္းမွာလည္း မိုးနဲ ့ေျမေလာက္ကို ကြာတယ္။ ထိုင္းက ေဆးရံုေတြမွာ ေဆးနံ႔မနံဘူး၊ အိမ္သာအနံ ့အသက္လည္း မနံဘူး၊ ဗမာျပည္မွာရွိတဲ့ ေဆးရံုေတြကို သြားၾကည့္ ေဆးနံ ့၊ေသးနံ ့ ကြမ္းတံေတြး အပုပ္နံ စံုေနတာပဲ၊ ေဆးရံုဘယ္နားမွာလည္း ေမးစရာ မလိုဘူး ခပ္ေ၀းေ၀းကတည္းက အန႔ံေပါင္းစံု နံေနတာပဲ၊ အိမ္သာလည္း စနစ္တက်မရွိ၊ အိမ္သာထဲမွာ အမွိဳက္ပံုးလည္း မရွိေတာ့ မိန္းမေတြအသံုးျပဳတဲ့ ပစၥည္းေတြ အိမ္သာထဲမွာ ဒီအတိုင္းပစ္ခဲ့တာေပါ့၊ လက္ေဆးခန္းဆိုတာလည္း မရွိဘူး။ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံက ေဆးရံုေတြ ေဆးခန္းေတြ ထိုင္းျမန္မာ နယ္စပ္က မယ္ေတာ္ေဆးခန္းကို မွီဖို႔ ႏွစ္ဆယ္ခ်ီျပီး လိုက္ရပါလိမ့္ဦးမယ္” ဟု ျမန္မာ အင္ဂ်င္နီယာက ေျပာသည္။

the condition of the private hospitals has much to be improved upon
as with all conditions of life in Myanmar
I once met a rich man from Loikaw, who had been to the Thai border town hospital
while he was staying in Yangon, he had to attend a Yangon private hospital
after staying overnight, he got out saying he cannot stay there
he left without completing his treatment
it is his right to choose the hospital and doctor he wants to be treated
he can go abroad to be treated if he can afford and is in condition to be able to travel there
but if he cannot, he will have to be treated in one of the hospitals in Myanmar
private or government
and I think there is not much to choose
except the treating specialist
and the location of one’s home regarding the choice from a few private hospitals available
the selection of the specialist is the most important factor
that is why super specialists have all the patients wanting to be treated by them
and their work load is too much
and cannot pay time to each of the patients adequately
the private hospitals which can attract the super specialists are the top ones
getting the richest patients
and can therefore offer the best facilities
2nd class hospitals have only 2nd class specialists
and get only poor patients
the vicious cycle is evident
improvement of the services of private hospitals will come in time
as with the slow rate of improvement of our economy

regarding the remarks about the latrines of the private hospitals:
I have been to the ThaHtayKyun hotel and the KL Crown Plaza
also the Sedona, Traders, Inya Lake, the best hotels in Yangon
the cleaniness of the above hotels are much better than the Yangon 5 star, 4 star hotels
why?
if the latrines in the 5 star hotels in Yangon has much to be desired
it is not surprising about the conditions of the private hospitals in Yangon

when I was young and there were coal steam locomotive engines in the railways
there were Indian locomotive engineers
they had the assistants clean the interior of the locomotive
to such a degree that their white uniforms are never dirtied by the coal dust
nowadays, with the diesel locomotives, and the all Bamar crew
the interior of the diesel locomotives can dirty your clothes if you touch the walls
in the early 1960s
the latrines in the Rangoon General Hospital were clean
and also that of the Railways Head Office
with Indian workers to clean the latrines
around the 1970s
the condition of the RGH latrines were terrible
no water, no sanitation
with Bamar cleaners
even the few Indian cleaners at the time were not working as their forefathers did
from this state of condition
comes the private hospitals
staffed by people who are used to living in squalor
cleaners who do not want to work
supervisors who do not know the standard that is required
the system and mentality of “Ya. Bar Dae……”
which is the source of our degradation
and a Medial Superintendent of a private hospital (retired government MS) who remarked to me: latrines will be smelly (Ein Thar Hso dar Nan Hmar Pawt.)
when I complained to him that the latrines of his hospital were smelly

we are living in a world
cut off from the world
eyes closed
ears closed
only the satellite tv hints to us what life on the other side is
if the private hospitals are not good, who do we blame?
what is the alternative?

there are very little private specialists in Myanmar
what little there is are those who do not want to leave the country
and yet does not want to continue working in government hospitals
but had to be in-service for their post grad studies to specialize

private hospitals need private specialists
not only as consultants
but also as residents to take care of the in-patients in the absence of the consultants
and also the patients who come directly to the hospital for treatment
not admitted by the consultants from their private practice

why does our government not allow non-government doctors specialization?
it has been over 20 years since the country opened up
yet
it is not enough
in terms of education, health, roads
we cannot blame our backwardness to the British anymore
the British ruled the whole country only from 1885 to 1948
less the Japanese period
around 60 years

we have been independent for 61 years
and from the best South East Asian country in 1962

with the best airport in SE Asia: Mingalardon airport

the best cinema hall in SE Asia: Thamada cinema ( formerly known as The President)
from having the Medical School where Malaysians came to attend

everyone here knows what we are now

Cont’d:

look at our neighbours

Laos recently held the SEA Games

Bangaladesh is exporting medicines to Myanmar

in Malaysia, there is now a School of Medicine in Sabah (a friend and classmate of mine, Dr. Zaw Lin, Ph. D. (microbiology), M. B. ,B.S.,  former Associate Prof. of Department of Biotechonology and Staff of Department of Microbiology, Institute of Medicine I, Yangon, is now working there [and there are several Schools of Medicine in KL, where many former staff of the Institutes of Medicine are working]

I hear that Medical Schools from Malaysia are recruiting students from Myanmar

why do specialists resign from their prestige jobs and go abroad?

why do they not live and practice in Myanmar?

Kyaw Lwin

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show detais 10:12

Dear All,

Good to read especially the analysis in English by Dr. NW.

Comment by the forwarder.

Good analysis. Though the BKK hospitals like Bunrumgrad and Sing Hospitals like Mount E are very very good, one as to pay a lot. Can everyone in this country afford to go to these Hospitals? No way.

But money doesn’t matter in all these things. We need to change the attitude. We must change the attitude like  “Ya Bar Dae” ” (Ein Thar Hso dar Nan Hmar Pawt.)   Thans Ko NW for the good and fair analysis .

NW‘s reply

thanks ko kyaw lwin
for your encouragement
and fowarding my mail to others
with your comments
nw

Acknowledgements

there is a saying in the 38 Mingalar concepts

acknowledging those who made contribution to you is a good deed (my translation of: KyayZuu TinHtaike Thu Ko, KyayZuu Ti. Tat. Chinn Thi Mingalar TaParrr Phyit Thi

[not the original, but what I remember; please correct me if I got it wrong and I will be indebted to you]

First of all, I would like to thank Ko Ko, who introduced me to this blogsite and advised me to post my recent travel photos and experiences here.

Ko Joseph, who encouraged me in my planning of the recent trip to the North and to share my experiences on the web

Ko Kyaw Lwin, who by his forwarding of my commentary on the above topic, gave me an idea of posting it on my blogsite.

ps

maybe I am getting old and dotty

doing things which I would have never thought of doing just a few months back

I will get older and more dotty

but the blogsite I have created here would live on even if not updated so long as wordpress continues to support it

so friends, last, but the least, I would like to thank the wordpress organization, whoever you are of permitting me to post this blogsite

 

21 Oct 2010

here are new comments to this blog:

Nyi Win the post was written some time ago in 2009
we have been independent for 62 years now
with no end of the tunnel we are in, in sight

Alvin Sumedha Lee

That case was debated in many blogs and even on FB… unfortunately, the discussions were in burmese and I couldn’t really make much out of them due to language restrictions. At that time, I can only feel that those who are not directly inv…olved but merely read from reports may not be able to give a fair overall comment. But at the same time, I can understand the many reasons for deterioration of medical standards. Sad to know, and I guess there is just too many people to be ‘blamed’ for the unfortunate death of the young girl.
What we can do, at our age now, is not to just feel sorry for the situation. We can try to actively pass on any knowledge and skills we have so that the next generation can rebuild what was lost through political upheavals and effect of sanctions.

Nyi Win

thanks Alvin
yes, there are too many people to be blamed
but as my cousin Oliver wrote earlier on my note “Who is responsible?”:
the problem is not the people….It is the mangement system and policy is not working …..The truth is simply IT… IS NOT WORKING If this the situation it is obvious the CEO / THE Chief is responsible ……… No doubt of it………..

Myo Zaw Nyunt

Hello Sayar,
Let me share my experience in hospitalization and clinical treatment in MM, Bangkok and Singapore. To be honest, I like treatment in Bangkok and SG. Once in BKK for my palpitation and another two treatment at Singapore.

Aside fro…m a bit language problem in Bangkok, the rest are satisfied. Singapore is the best.

In Singapore, one GP handled for my long gastric problem for two times, after that, he changed his mind and suggest to go to Singapore General Hospital as he can’t handle anymore…Very impressive. If you can’t handle, better recommend to the one who know more. This is professional way.

Now, I feel better with two times treatment and long term medication.

Conclusion is, it is clear that , in Myanmar, even though you spend time and money to get treatment and know the root cause, most are not satisfied. It’s because of some specialist.

Nyi Win thanks ko Myo for sharing your experience and thoughts

Kyaw Minn Thu21 October 2010 at 12:44

Subject: Health care in Myanmar, private hospital

U lay nyi,

I read your blog regarding health care in myanmar especially private hospitals. I don’t know what to say as I have seen the difference between health care in developed part of the world and underdeveloped world. I still feel that government hospital especially YGH, NYGH are safer and better for acute emergencies than private hospital.

What I notice is, lack of system in place in haealth care. Still has a lot of bureaucracy with central control. I agree with you that people’s attitude must be change “Ya Bar Dae”. Health care costs is not cheap. new medicines, technologies available only after investing millions of dollars over many years.

There are many more factors involed. Our country failed to retain educated professionals, that is the said thing. There are so many successful burmese professionals all over the world. I am sure they all have some degree of willing to go back home and rebuild the country.

I hope I would be able to see you when I visit Yangon next time as we can chat about various things. I am sorry for not being able to meet you last time.

Best wishes,
Kyaw M Thu

Nyi Win October 21 at 2:59pm

KMT, successful burmese professionals all over the world going back home to rebuild the country is not feasible at the moment
CHANGE is what we need and it will not occur in the foreseeable future
Myanmar will change when it will
not before
in the meantime, Myanmars must think of themselves first

Journey to the North 2009 November Day-3-4 26-27-Nov SUT Manau Poi

December 24, 2009

the Sut Manau Poi 2009 Bhamo, Nov 26-28

the badge for the SUT Manau Poi 2009

at the SUT Manau Poi, 2009, Bhamo

P and AKO in front of the Manao Taings

SUT MANAU POI 2009, Bhamo

dear all

the SUT MANAU POI was another unexpected delightful experience of our trip

you will see the photos here on my blogsite

but you will miss the videos and music of the dance

the videos were taken by the Panasonic camera, borrowed from ko khine soe

and the cd on which it was burnt is not recognized by the laptop at home and the computer here although it could be read at ko ks’s desktop and Pyone’s niece’s desktop

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reception team, Sut Manao Poi, 2009, Bhamo

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the 2nd Sut Manao Poi, 2009, Bhamo, is also called KaukThit Sarr Pwe

we were told by Zaw Tuu that the Manao Poi-s are usually held in January

on the way to Bhamo, a co-traveller told Pyone that there will be a Manao Poi in Bhamo

and that getting rooms will be difficult

so they had booked rooms in advance

when we got to Bhamo, we decided to stay near the bus depot so that we need not go far to and from lodging and bus depot

we found that many nearby lodges are not free

because of booking by the Manao Poi committee

for the delegates

although many delegates to the Manao Poi have not arrived yet

we could not get rooms in the first 2 places

and had to go till the 3rd one to get the only remaining double room that is free

we took it as we did not want to go from place to place

and this one is quite near the bus depot

they provided extra matress for ako to sleep

so we 3 stayed in the last double room

the Manao Poi turned out to be an unexpected special event in our trip

we found out that although the official opening ceremony would be at 08:00 the next day, there is a pwe that night at the Manao grounds

so we went there after buying bus ticket and having dinner near our lodge

we went there in a tricycle taxi

the usual mode of travel apart from the motorcycle taxi

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at the showroom of the Sut Manau Poi

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MAHTANG PALACE

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in front of the Manao Taings

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Kachin Ladies in front of the Kachin house in the Manao Poi

when we got to the Kachin house, we looked inside and saw people sitting

I thought it is their office and some would stay the night there

then, we saw several Kachin ladies getting down from the Kachin house and I requested permission to photograph them

they consented and Pyone got in with them for a group photo

I am sorry for the poor condition of the group photo, being not properly focused

I did not realize then

but when I look at the photo now

2 were wearing tags indicating they are delegates to the Manau Poi

3 were wearing longyis, of which 2 were in traditional Kachin longyis

they told me to get up inside the Kachin house and take photos

we got up the ladder and inside

and took more photos

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the inside of the Kachin house at Manao Poi

roasting pork in the main room

in Kachin style, the stove is in the living room as it is cold in Kachin States

there are bamboo cups

and baggage piled in the corner

tied up in colourful patterned sheets

probably pillow, blanket and mosquito net inside

some personal bags too

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ceremonial costumes

there are colourful dresses in the main room

ako told us that the dresses are that of the Duwas

Duwas are hereditary chiefs

a sort of Saw Bwas (Saophas)

they seem to be independent

not under the Burmese kings as the Shans and Saw Bwas were

the next day we saw the Kachin elders wearing them at the SUT MANAU POI opening ceremony

the colours are bright

and shiny

headpieces with feathers, boar tusks and decorations above the costumes

and a Kachin bag on the pillar

a sword on the far left

I wonder what the 5 pieces with handles on the shelf at the right upper corner are

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the first side room

after I took a photo in the main room

a man directed me to the first side room

to take photos

there are utensils on the shelf and cardboard boxes below

this room seems to serve as a store room for the present

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the men’s room

he took me to the next room too

here men were sitting around the fire

with a kettle nearby

edibles on the rack above the fire

you will find a Kachin bag hanging on the wall

and another in the foreground

mats placed around the fireplace

made ready to sleep

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the ladies room

the next room is the ladies room

a fireplace in the middle of the room

it seems to be a standard feature in Kachin houses

2 swords at the corner

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main room (rear)

a group of people sitting around the fireplace

rocks in the fireplace

flasks and mugs for tea

a traditional bamboo cup / mug for Khaung Yae

Pyone and Aung Ko Oo are in the background

talking with the elders

those who are from the Sut Manau Poi convening committee

and their guests

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our host introducing ako and P to other guests

the lady in front was taken unawares

when I photographed

she was holding a KaukHnyin htoke

our host has a bamboo cup of khaung yae

there are 2 bamboo cups on the table

a guest holding an opened kauk-hnin-htoke

I wonder what the basket holds

there is one in the previous photo too

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another room

pardon me for the poor light

I think these rooms are assigned to these people to live while at the Manau Poi

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preparation room

pouring khaung-yae from the bamboo container into the bamboo cups

a sword in the corner

condensed milk cans on the shelf

an empty basket in the foreground

while I was taking photos of each and every room

the occupants do not seem to mind at all

and not ask me anything

when I neared the end of the hall

I saw Pyone and Aung Ko Oo talking to someone

and I was requested by someone to join them

I continued taking photos of the remaining rooms

and then joined them

later I learnt that when they got near the end

they were asked where they were from

obviously, we were outsiders

and not invited guests

ako replied that he is the doctor of the Man Tawn Station Hospital

the elder was delighted and they were accorded guest treatment

given seats

and khaung yae

with kauk hnyin htokes

this was how I found them when I finished my photo session

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P and AKO were seated when I returned to the main hall

with a packet of kauk-hnyin-htoke each in their hands

I was greeted by our host

introduced to others

given a chair to sit on

a cup of khaung-yae offered to me

the ones prepared in the previous photo I believe

and we were told of the difficulties they met for the preparation for the Manau Poi

the restrictions enforced by the authorities

the difficult routes they had to take to make this Sut Manau Poi possible

the khaung-yae was clear and colourless

the best I have tried

better than that I had at the food shop in the MyitHsone

much more than at the Kachin food shop in MyayNiGone

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leaving the Kachin house

we went to the stage

where there was entertainment and contests

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while I was taking photos of the singing group

P and AKO went off

while waiting for them I took photos of the nearby stalls

and more photos of the singers and prize awarding

I must apologize for the poor quality of my photos

as there was not enough light for my camera to focus on

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you will notice how many photos were not good from the missing numbers

this one is a prize giving ceremony for the Kachin traditional dress contest

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the 4 top prize winners

p and ako returned after a long time

she was shopping for Kachin longyis

ako bought a jacket with the logo of the Sut Manau Poi

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P at another stall

with ako waiting

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what they were selling

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on the way to the Sut Manao Poi 2009, Bhamo

after our PhaYar Phu tour of Bhamo in the morning, we went to the Sut Manao Poi 2009 opening ceremony

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the badge for the SUT Manau Poi 2009

when we entered the SUT Manau Poi 2009 on 26-Nov, each of us were given a badge and asked for 500 kt entrance fees

we had to place the badge on our shirt

later, when we went to the market, there were many Kachin delegates too

I was buying some medicine and the salegirl asked me whether the Manau Poi openining ceremony has finished

I think that she thought my badge means I was a delegate

in fact I was just a visitor

I have been mistaken many times

when I was in hotels, staff who do not know me always address me as if I were an expatriate Chinese

when we were visiting Mrauk-U, we were walking in the town when a man come alongside me and asked me in Japanese

of course I do not understand Japanese, but only know some words that help me identify the language he was speaking

I answered in Burmese: I am Bamar

I was wearing longyis at the time

with Pyone in longyi and Aung Ko Oo in toursers besides me

even then I was mistaken for a Japanese

I was in KL shopping for extra battery for my Canon camera

together with Ko Win Nyunt Aung and Ko Nay Myo Aung

when the shopowner asked me whether I were Japanese

it was the 2nd time I was mistaken for a Japanese

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near the Manao Kwinn

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a Kachin delegate

when we got there, we met a Kachin gentleman in semi traditional wear

I asked permission to photograph and he said that I could

but he was surprised when I aimed my camera at him

he thought I was asking for permission to take photos in the ceremony

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the Manao taings inside the enclosed Manao field

when we got to the Manao circle, there was music and singing already

with announcements about the Manao dancing about to begin

we waited

there was more singing and music

but we saw no dancing inside the circle

it was only after some time that ako realised that the dancing was on the other side of the enclosed space

in front of the Kachin house we visited the night before

we went around the circle to witness what was our first first-hand experience of a Manao dance

you will notice the people at the base of the Manao taings facing the other way

they are the singers

I do not know the real purpose of a 4 story building near the Manao taings

but on zooming in to the photo, I think the traditional music band is on it

but I cannot be sure

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the official singers in traditional dress

these are the singers who sing for the Manao festival opening ceremony dance

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before ako noticed that we were on the wrong side

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waiting for the dance to begin with “great expectations” while the Manao dance has already begun

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the leaders in the front of the dance group

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the dance begins in front of the Kachin long house

it takes the form of many turns, others following the leaders in a long que, like a long serpent

much more longer with more participants than when we used to play “Shwe Sun Nyo / Ma Htwe”

the Chinese dragon dancers’ record would be broken many times by the sheer number of the participants

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the leaders turn to the other side while others followed

the dress of the leaders are splendid

bright coloured and silky

shining in the sun

the leaders wear tousers and shoes underneath

the dance is in slow motion

turning this way and that while advancing slowly

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the leaders enter the Manau field

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followed by others, the leaders turn back and then turn again

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advancing to the fence where I was

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passing close by

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followed by others

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Kachin swords

you will find there are many swords

one in each hand of the male Manau participants

the most I have seen in my life

enough to start a battle

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a Rawang group passed by

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the leaders made the full circle

followed by others in various ethnic dresses, the leaders made the whole circle and got back nearby, just behind the last of the whole group

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the KIA

the first close up contact with them

they sponsored the Manau Poi

and are guarding with AK-47s

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the grand stand

I asked permission to take this photo from a person with a badge before taking it

but there was no objection

the VIPs were on the grand stand

in the first row

2 with silver swords

Journey to the North 2009 November Day-2 25-Nov Part-6 Nalankha falls Sidone cont’d

December 24, 2009

dear all

after crossing the bridge, we had to climb up the opposite mountain to reach the falls

the road was natural mountain terrain with minimal manmade improvements

those who like nature travel will like it very much

I heard that tourists take a 3 day tour around Myitkyina

maybe 1 day each for the MyitHsone, NaLanKha and then to LaiZar or go to Bhamo to make the boat trip

however, we did not meet any tourists during our visit to the NaLanKha falls

we met only a group of girls from Myitkyina who came on motorcycle

a 30 mile motorcycle ride

on good road of course

it would be great motorcycling if the road is dirt road and one has to ride on a DT

(as I did once, during my stay in the NanSiBum Jade Mines, Khamti)

the DTs are made for such terrain

but the girls came on Chinese 125s

it will be harsh on these motorbikes to make such climb, even on good road

but they made it

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Pyone was the first on the way up to the water falls

I had to call out to her to stop so that I can take photos of the climb

the first part of the climb was natural as you see

I remember my first visit to the KyaikHtiYoe pagoda back in the 1960s

when I was maybe in the 6th Standard

it was still natural

unlike the concrete pavements and steps of the recent years

I was about 11 years old

did not even have a pair of trousers

had only shorts

it was during the Cold season

and very cold during the night

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next came aung ko oo

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and then myself

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Zaw Tuu, our driver, grandson of Sama Duwa HsinWar Naung’s elder brother, another Duwa

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ako was waiting for me

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as I was making a difficult crossing

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and reached ako safely

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it was my turn to take photos of them

P had gone ahead

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there were some huts for rest and recreation

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Pyone looks less happy now

maybe she is tired after the climb

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the lower part of the water falls in the background

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the lower part of the water falls

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Pyone has gone ahead again

it was a descent for a while

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this is the place where the falls joins the NaLanKha

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while I was taking photos, ako and zaw tuu has gone up and beyond them is the falls (middle part)

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Pyone looks tired

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and the rocks beautiful

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the falls again

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ako resting

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but ready to have his photo taken

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the falls again

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P was a little afraid on the bamboo bridge

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but was sure of her foot

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it was easy barefoot

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we had a photo session

and the photos are unbelievable

even looks like photoshopped

but they are not

of course, it is the effect of cameras

being more beautiful than when seen

even then, the falls is a wonder to us

I have never experienced such a beautiful waterfall in my life before

I have witnessed several waterfalls:

BE falls near Pyin-Oo-Lwin

DatTaw Jyaint near AhNee SaKhann

a fall seen from the rail track to Lashio

waterfall at KyaikHtiYoe

one near Beik (a mere trickle during April 2007)

none as beautiful as the NaLanKha falls

maybe the KyaingTawn falls will be more breathtaking than the NaLanKha

but until then, the NaLanKha falls will be the best I have been to

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they pushed on to the next level

while I waited to take photos

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ako reached midway to the next level

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there was a steep climb ahead

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they waited for a person to come down the steep part

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I took photos while they were waiting

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and then pushed ahead

this photo is not clear

but there is no alternative

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ako prepared for the climb

rolling up his trousers

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but they get unrolled

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Pyone had a bad moment with no one nearby

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but there was no danger

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she tried to get up

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and there was no problem

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as you can see

she had taken off her slippers to have a sure footing

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was she relieved? or tired?

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P could smile now

there are others in the background

another photosession

from below

with zoom

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they were quite far up from where I was

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I hand-signaled to Pyone to call ako for a photosession

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and she called ako

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ako had photos taken

the upper part of the falls as background

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both the upper and middle parts of the fall

taken from below

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I had ako move more towards the rock end

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while Pyone was waiting in the background, out of the way of the camera

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ako returned back from the rock edge near the falls

while I took photos of the path we had to take

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they made it up to another level

with the top fall in the background

while I reached their former level

where P had a near fall

Pyone had a talk with the group of girls from Myitkyina

or at least one of them

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the top step of the falls

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the 2 top steps of the NaLanKha

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it was a long long talk

unlike her usual self

Pyone usually does not inquire about others

does not want to know about others

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both of them seems happy

or maybe they were having a joke

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the topmost fall in the rear

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I got there too to take close up photos

no one is allowed further up anymore

after someone fell down

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the way back (down)

the place we got to is the highest level visitors are allowed to go

there was no limit and one could go to the top once

but there was an accident with fall

and visitors are not allowed higher anymore

we had to go back

however much we wanted to stay there

Thu Do. Pyan Jya. Lae Pye…….

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the way back (down)

another difficulty

going down

although there is a saying:

Hlay Ah.Hsin…

Myinn Ah.Tet.

going down a hill is also dangerous

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nearly at the bottom

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but still more difficulty

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finally on the bridge again

Pyone was waiting for me

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Pyone seems to be in a hurry

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while I took time to take the last photos of the place

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the last photos of the NaLan Kha

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the last photos of the NaLan Kha

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the last view of the NaLanKha falls from the bottom

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I caught up with Pyone near the top

she was waiting for me

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the last view of the NaLanKha falls from the top of the opposite hill

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and the rapids (shinn)

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the last photosession at NaLan Kha falls

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the chicken of the Htamin Hsaing there

before being in the pot

for customers

it was past time for lunch

but Pyone does not want to eat there

and we went on to Sidone

for late lunch

and to visit the remains of the British fort at Sidone

which ako had heard of from those who had been there

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the chicken at the food shop at NaLan Kha, before being in the pot

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the lively black puppy

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the sleeping siblings

journey to the north Day-1 Part-2 Jaw Bum and Karienaw

December 21, 2009

the Jaw Langchyi on Jaw Bum

dear all

during our return from the MyitHsone

we saw again the road side cleared areas meant for relocating the villages that will be submerged

I feel sad thinking about the would be refugees

who will have to live in new surroundings

trying to find a new way to make a livelihood

on our way back to Myitkyina

I looked for U Soe Win (Shwebo Tharr) at the waterways maintenance compound and  building about midway back

I had heard that he is in Myitkyina working with Asia World in the MyitHsone Dam project, water way maintenance (YayKyaung HteinTheinYay) department

It housed only the expatriates

the locals stay in Myitkyina

when we get back to Myitkyina, we dropped in at the Asia World quarters in Myitkyina

but was told that the YayKyaung HteinTheinYay group stays in a hotel near the jetty

I did not have time to go there and missed U Soe Win

with whom it would have been a nice reunion

(but met Pyae Sone later in Monywa later on Day-6)

The Jaw Bum

we visited the Jaw Bum, on our return

it was a centennial celebrations grounds (I do not remember what they celebrated for)

and the high rise building on top of the hill built later

is now a sightseeing must for all those visiting Myitkyina

and a favorite spot for locals as well

as it is at the outskirts of Myitkyina

the views from the top of the building is superb

worth the air ticket cost

and you will see them in photos I have attached

you can is even see the Bala MinHtin bridge

in the distance

which is situated near the northern edge of Myitkyina

we visited the Jaw Bum, on our return

it was a centennial celebrations grounds (I do not remember what they celebrated for)

and the high rise building on top of the hill built later

is now a sightseeing must for all those visiting Myitkyina

and a favorite spot for locals as well

as it is at the outskirts of Myitkyina

the views from the top of the building is superb

worth the air ticket cost

and you will see them in photos I have attached

you can is even see the Bala MinHtin bridge

in the distance

which is situated near the northern edge of Myitkyina

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Jaw Bum is the centennial mountain

at the top is the Jaw Langchyi

the top which is a special viewpoint

with a scenic view of the surroundings

another highlight of the day

it is now a sightseeing must for all those visiting Myitkyina

and a favorite spot for locals as well

as it is at the outskirts of Myitkyina

the views from the top of the building is superb

worth the air ticket cost

and you will see them in photos I have attached

you can is even see the Bala MinHtin bridge

in the distance

which is situated near the northern edge of Myitkyina

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the Jaw Langchyi

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Pyone midway up the Jaw Langchyi

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panorama from top of the Jaw Langchyi

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the nearby hills

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one can see trees far till the mountains

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the forest view for miles and miles, as far as one can see, except for a few inhabited areas

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nearby developed areas

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the Ayeyarwaddy with the BaLa MinHtin in the distance

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the BaLaMinHtin bridge, zoom close up

the BaLa MinhHtin bridge is at the northern outskirt of Myitkyina seen from the Jaw Langchyi

and the Jaw Bum not far from Myitkyina

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smoke in the distance

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this mountain is on the north

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Pyone on the Jaw Langchyi

we had a photosession with the mountain background

as the light is the best that place

shining on our faces in the evening

the mountain is on the north

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flowers on Jaw Bum

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the moon on Jaw Bum

it was the 8th waxing day of NatTaw

NatTaw La.Hsan 8 day

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the baptist theological school near Jaw Bum

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KaReinNaw

we reached KaReinNaw at dusk

and the light is not good

it is on the outskirts of Myitkyina

nearer than the Jaw Bum

and a favourite recreation site for Myitkyina residents

and a tour site for visitors

it is on the AyeYarWaddy

and will be more beautiful when seen in good light

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a boat going down river

we saw a boat going down river

and I took photos in various zoom levels

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the last view of the Kareinnaw

we departed from Kareinnaw without wanting to go

yet it is near nighttime

as we are in the Cold season

north of the “Ottara Yin Soon Tan” /

in the temperate Myanmar

which is far different from the tropical Myanmar where I live

a different country

different ethnic people

yet brothers and sisters

staying in a fragile peace

which none dares to break

BUT

journey to the north Day-2 Part-5 Nalankha falls Sidone

December 20, 2009

dear all
we got to the NaLanKha falls near Sidone

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the Nalankha falls

Kha means river in Shan
this area must have been inhabited by the Shans
before it became a Kachin area

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first view

there is a stream down below

it is very beautiful

when I looked down, I saw a Chaung with rapids (Shins) and it did not look like any waterfall
I was disappointed although the rapids were beautiful because it is not a waterfall
it was only later, when I went further down that I noticed the waterfall on the opposite side

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bridge over troubled waters

there is a bridge over the Nalankha

over which we must pass to reach the falls

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rapids / shinns

they are very beautiful

but they are not waterfall

and I was a little disappointed

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first glimpse of the falls

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seen more clearly as I go down the sides

the falls are better seen and I realize…..

what a wonder it is

how wrong I was just now

I came to realize the beauty of the falls

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P was first on the bridge

as usual, I was taking photos and was left behind when others go on to look at the wonder

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P was very happy

it showed on her face

the trip is worth taking

the Nalankha falls is very very beautiful

I did not know about its existence

it was ako who heard about it from the hospital staff

and he planned the Myitkyina based tours

he decided that it would not be worth going to the LaiZar or the LweJe border trade areas

he has been to ShweLi while attending the ZeeBinGyee course

and knows that these border trade areas would not be as developed as ShweLi

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down river view

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up river view with P in the foreground

I do not know whether I was taking P’s photo or the up river view with her in the photo

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ako got into the view too

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it must have been a photo session, not an upriver view only

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ako at the rock at NaLanKha

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P alone

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the P and the photographer

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mermaid from the deep? or a (water) dragon (Myanmar / Chinese)?

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a dragon from the deep?

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on towards the falls on the other side

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waiting for the photographer

Journey to the North 2009 November Day-2 25-Nov Part 4 Waing Maw and beyond

December 19, 2009

dear all

the driver came to collect us for our trip to Waing Maw, War Shaung and Sidone
the previous day’s driver had a 3 day order for a tourist and could not take us on our Day-2 trip and had arranged with his friend

the van is a 9B Corolla van 1996 model

owned by the sister of the driver, Zaw Tuu

I was surprised why such a car was being hired out on highway trips

but found out that both of them are buddies

and Zaw Tuu helps out his friend whenever possible

I found out later during the day that he (Zaw Tuu) is the grandson of the elder brother of “HsaMa DuWar HsinWar Naung”

I asked him why the DuWar was not passed to the eldest son as with the HsoPhas (Saw Bwas) and he replied that:

his grandfather was also a DuWar

and that the principalities were divided among brothers and they both or all became DuWars

that was during the colonial and early independence days

when the Kachins were still in the feudal / royalist state

he said that although the elders still have feudal mentality

the newer generation like him are of republican mind

with everyone being equal

there were ruler and serf casts

those of the ruling family only could be named  “Zaw”

and those of the ruling family and the serfs not allowed to intermarry

of course the Bamas and Shans and maybe other ethnic groups also had royalists

like all elsewhere in the world where the ruling families are supposed to be different among humans

Kings, Queens, Princes, Princesses, Dukes, Duchesses, Barons, Earls, Counts, etc.

even the ThaGyee Myo in villages where ThaGyees are hereditary and passed from father to son

even in modern Communist State of N. Korea, so called Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the DPRK

a modern Kim dynasty is born in a Communist State

with another descendent being groomed as Crown Prince

another dynasty in Singapore

where a Li dynasty is being promoted under the guise of democracy

India luckily escaped finally from the Nehru – Gandhi dynasty in world’s largest democracy

the masses / hordes can be led to do anything by someone with good plans

as we witnessed in the Cultural Revolution in China

the Killing fields of the Khmer Rouge

and the killing of father by son during the BCP BaKaPa

we have to thank our Tatmadaw because they prevented the BCP to take over

otherwise, we would have Killing Fields here in Myanmar too

but we went to the Kachin clothes shop where we bought some Kachin longyis
I bought a Kachin speaking dvd with Burmese subtitle
it was actually another one I looked for
the one recently shown to the press
which I saw on the mrtv-4
but it was not available yet at Myitkyina
it was mentioned as the first Kachin speaking movie
but at Myitkyina, I found several earlier ones on the market
maybe they are classified as vcds and dvds
not movies
I also bought some grapefruit
and sugar
although U Toe Yin told me to have pineapples while there
there were none in the market
as they are of season only during the rainy season
afterwards
we went to the bus depot
bought tickets to Bhamo for the next day
then we crossed the BalaMinHtin bridge
and crossed over to Waing Maw
where aung ko oo was waiting
he introduced us to his former landlord and landlady
we went off on our way to War Shaung

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the Bala Minhtin bridge

it is at the outskirts of Myitkyina

once crossing it, we get to the Waing Maw township

but the town is a little way off to the south

besides the Ayeyarwaddy

a peaceful town

not bursting with activities

with 2 main roads crossing at the centre of the town

the highway from Myitkyina to Bhamo

the MyitHseik – Sadone highway (though War Shaung and the road branch to Man Tawn – ChiPwe and beyond, reaching Panwar and others)

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security at the Waing Maw end of the Bala MinHtin bridge

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at the petrol shop on the Waing Maw side

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before reaching Waing Maw

we got to War Shaung after crossing the Bala MinHtin bridge

and went to ako’s place

he lives at the house of a Man Tawn man and his younger brother

they are younger brothers of the first landlady

she had arranged for him to stay at the house of her brothers

the house in Man Tawn was their parent’s

but after they passed away

it came into the possession of the 2 sons

both younger than the daughters

but under their Kachin law

only sons are allowed to inherit

the daughters are left out

they are actually LaWaw / MaRu

who are the majority Kachin tribe in Man Tawn and Waing Maw

there are Shans in southern Waing Maw

with their pagoda

the Shan Su.

but it is the LaWaws who live in the centre of Waing Maw

the TMO at Waing Maw is a local Shan

whose parents also are Waing Maw people

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near Waing Maw

ako had asked us to bring gift cakes for 2 persons

it turned out that they are for his 2 landlords

the former and current

the former landlady the elder sister

the current landlords 2 younger brothers of her

the elder one is in the gold mines up Ayeyarwaddy

with his wife, a midwive in a village near Man Tawn

the younger brother attending courses in Yangon

the house is just off the main road

near the junction of the centre of Man Tawn, a little to the north

not far from the market just beyond (south of) the road junction

and hospital, a little way off but not far

all within 5-10 min walking distance

including the clinic of the TMO where ako is relieving

while the TMO is attending the ZeePinGyee Zeya Course, only after 14 years service

his current landlords are not in Myitkyina when we got there

we only met his former landlord who runs an alternate day transport between Man Tawn and Waing Maw

he and the passengers were at the compound

for the trip to Man Tawn that day

the Toyota Hilux will return the next day

and so on

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War Shaung Hlay Seik

after ako joined us

we went to the jetty / Hlay Seik

it is near the centre of the town

and there, one can use the gsm hp

but is cannot be used in downtown Waing Maw

the Hlay Seik is at the margin of the Myitkyina gsm tower area

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the War Shaung dam

I have known about this War Shaung dam

since I was young

and the government was Socialist

but army in essence

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the road from War Shaung onwards

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before the road climbed the mountains

we saw the road to ChePway

on which ManTawn, the village ako is posted lies

it now looks like a side road

as the condition is bad

but it was formerly the main road

and the road to Sidone branches off only after ManTawn

the new and good road is the best in Myanmar

built by a Chinese road construction company

under contract by the PanWar 2nd Kachin peace group

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on the road up the mountains

the road climbs up mountains not far from War Shaung till it reaches the border

the condition of the road is the best I have experienced in Myanmar

they are built and still maintained by a Chinese road construction company

China standard

up to the international standard I experienced in Malaysia during my travels to the Cameroon Highlands, Penang, passing through Ipoh both ways, back to Kuala Lumpur and then to and back from Melaka after my training during 2006.

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huts beside the highway

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road side rock barrier

this method of rock barrier seems to act as a sieve for water to be let in, yet prevent the debris coming down onto the highway

here, the road condition was not good with damage and water collecting on the road

we had to get off the van while it passed the water

we had a good opportunity to take photos

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last photo session before we reaches the NaLanKha falls

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the last photo before we got to the Nalankha falls

Journey to the North 2009 November Day-1 24-Nov Part 01

December 18, 2009

The MyitHsone

Pyone at Departure loungue

where eagles dare

Flight to Myitkyina and Putao

Acknowledgement

I would like to make a record of many thanks to all my friends who helped me plan this trip to the north

and would like to share my experiences with them and also with other friends

those who might have been there

or

who might not have been yet

I want to make special mention of Ko Joseph who lived in Myitkyina and helped me plan my trip and encouraged me before and after my trip (to make this presentation)

Ko Nyo Win Htoon who told me about the boat trips down the Ayeyarwaddy from Myitkyina to Mandalay and how to make bus reservation ahead before reaching Mandalay

Ko Zaw Lin Oo, who provided me with the data about bus depots in Mandalay for my return

U Myint Oo, Permit Team, who arranged for me to get help from the Caretaker of MOGE guest house, Mandalay, to get train tickets and to stay there if necessary.

And last, but not the least, of my elder son Aung Ko Oo, who is posted in Waing Maw hospital, and arranged for the excursions from Myitkyina and accompanied us from Day-1 at the Myitkyina airport till we departed at the Mandalay Railway Station on Day-7 just prior his train to Myitkyina departed

More Acknowledgements

I would like to put on record the great help given by Ko Khine Soe, by lending his spare camera to me on my trip (it was actually his son’s old one), which is much better than my Canon, with more memory, better functions and more available 1batteries of AA size, 4 of which I have at home and also the help he gave me to burn them on CD yesterday which I did not bring today
as I had not intended to continue my narrative this morning.

I would like to record my thanks to U Hla Dway, chief mechanic, MOGE, mprl workshop, who is from Bhamo and gave me information about Bhamo and the Bhamo Mandalay travel methods.

And also to Zaw Lin Aung, who helped me contact Pyae Sone on my way to Monywa

Departure

our trip began on 24-Nov. The flight to Myitkyina by Myanmar Airways departed at 07:00,earlier than the usual 10:00 departure timeso that we got to Myitkyina around 10:00 (instead of the usual 13:00) and made the trip to the MyitHsone possible the same day, instead of going there the next day as originally planned. We gained a day through the earlier flight plan.

The mother and child in one photo is a co-traveller on the plane. They were going to PharKantto attend the funeral of their husband / father that afternoon who expired on 22-Novin PharKnat hospital,from stomach related problem (perforated gastric ulcer). They were informed by phone the previous day. The son, 2 years old, does know about the death of his father yet, nor will he be able to realise the significance until he is much older. She was making the last trip to PharKant and she will return only after the funeral and selling their house.

Her first visit there was after her marriage and she had been there several times. Both are from KyaukTaw, Rakhine State, and she now lives mainly in Yangon, while he lives mainly in Phar Kant. He has been was working in PharKnat for several years and got married when he became successful enough to start a family. We parted just outside the Myitkyina airport after she arranged for the trip to PyarKant on a van (price: 120000 Kyats)

aung ko oo arrived a little later from Waing Maw with the van he arranged for our trip to the MyitHsone. The driver was the husband of a nurse at Waing Maw hospital.The van to take us to the place we are staying before going to the MyitaHsone. We stayed at the “Nan Thidar”, with a riverside view on ako’s suggestions.

It was only on the day before we went on the trip,after I bought the air tickets to Myitkyinathat Pyone suddenly wanted to go to Putao. She had heard that it is very beautiful that one of her friends did not want to return after she got there. I had read at the booking office that there were only 2 Myanmar airways flights to Putao a week, tuesdays (Day-1 was a tuesday) and fridays and that the plane we were on would go to Putao after we got off at Myitkyina.

Had we planned the Putao trip earlier, we could have got ticket there from Yangon, but aung ko oo might not be able to get the same flight from Myitkyina to Putaoand would probably be left behind on that part of the trip

We went to get Air Bagan ticket to Putao when we arrived in Myiutkyina, but when we got to their office, it was just bad luck that Air Bagan also have the same 2 flights a week to Putao on tuesdays and fridays, and the flight to Putao on 24-Nov the same day at 14:00 and was full and we could not get tickets to go there the same afternoon. As we could not wait till Friday (Day-4) to get to Putao [we had planned to leave Myitkyina on Day-3], and then till the next tuesday (Day-8) or maybe till the next friday (Day-11) to return to Myitkyina (we actually got back to Yangon on Day-8 yesterday)

We had to take the Putao side trip out of our iteniary if we have luck, we might reach Putao sometime in the future as I intend to go back there in about 5 years time if our health is still good enough to travel.

After checking in at the Nanthidar we went to the MyitHsone. It was a 2 hour drive and although the road in Myitkyina is very good, it became bad outside Myitkyina, but still not so bad and we got there in time for lunch.

We had a Kachin style lunch with smoked fresh MyitHsone fish, chicken, Kachin Style and fish, Kachin Style and of course a mug of Khaung Yae, without which it would not be complete.

Lunch was in a shop in view of the MyitHsone, a very special experience which I will never forget and will probably never repeat again as the MyitHsone dam will inundate all the area with the MyitHsone gone forever in a few years. The water level will be 700 ft above sea level and as Myitkyina is 400 ft asl, the MyitHsone will be 300 ft under water including the hill at the point where the MayKha and MayLiKha meets.

A very sad thing when one thinks about it. Even now, I feel sad about it.

What will the environmentalists and the local Kachins feel about it?

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Pyone at Departure loungue

we had to get up at 03:30 to make it to the 05:30 check-in time as the flight was 07:00

our eta was 10:00 and we could go to the MyitHsone the same day, saving one day from the original plan

Dido, our dog accompanied us to the airport. She was happy to have a ride in the car, but did not know that we would be leaving her and go on the trip. She would be taken care of by P’s family during our absence. After we got off and had our luggage out, she was taken away when my brother in law drove off to their home. She would not miss us until later.

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self portrait

I took this photo by timer and got myself in photo although the view of us is not good

usually, as the photographer, I am is the least to be photographed, especially when there is no one to help

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NW and P at Mingalardon airport departure lounge

While waiting at departure lounge, a co-traveller who was returning to Myitkyina took photos of us so that this photo is good. Later, we met our classmate Dr. Ohnmar San there. She was returning to Naypyitaw, where she is posted at National AIDS Program. She complained of not getting a house as she is single, and was permitted to stay in a dormitory. Only married staff get houses, or apartments, even if their families live elsewhere.

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tarmac view

predeparture

after getting settled, I took this photo before the plane taxied for takeoff

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Takeoff

There is the HlawGarr reservoir in the background.

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Flight to Myitkyina and Putao

the view of the clouds below the airplane

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Pyone during the flight

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tragedy for some while we were going on trip

The mother and child in one photo is a co-traveller on the plane

they were going to PharKant to attend the funeral of their husband / father that afternoon. He expired on 22-Nov

in PharKnat hospital from stomach related problem (perforated gastric ulcer). Friends informed them by phone the previous day.

The son, 2 years old, does know about the death of his father yet nor will he be able to realise the significance until he is much older.

She was making the last trip to PharKant and she will return only after the funeral and selling their house. Her first visit to Pharkant was after her marriage and she had been there several times. Both are from KyaukTaw, Rakhine State.

He was was working in PharKnat for several years and got married when he became successful enough to start a family. We parted just outside the Myitkyina airport after she arranged for the trip to PyarKant on a van (price: 120000 Kyats)

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The first view of the AyeYarWaddy

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The Ayeyarwaddy

There are plenty of sand banks to be seen as the plane gets low for landing near our destination. There are plenty of sand banks to be seen as the plane gets low for landing near our destination.

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Near Myitkyina

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near landing

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Pyone on arrival at Myitkyina airport

there are Pann Hnan in the background

the air was cool, not cold as the time was about 10:00

we had to wait outside the airport for our luggage

When I asked an airport worker where to get our luggage, he asked for the tickets. I gave them to him, a little worried what I would do if he disappeared with the luggage. But he was sincere, and only wanted tip money to carry the luggage to the gate. It was a long way and worth the price, 500 K/pc. However, we could carry all our luggage ourselves, and ako later told me that anyone can retrieve their baggage by themselves beside the airport building. The porter had misled me to get tip money, telling me that the place to retrieve the luggage was outside the gate. It seemed fishy then of course, but what could I do?

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Aung Ko Oo arrived to take us away from the airport.

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Group photo in front of the Myitkyina airport

The van driver took our group photo. He lives in Waing Maw and is the wife of a nurse at the hospital. He came with ako on his motorcycle and got the van which is in Myitkyina, and then came to the airport.

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On the way to MyitHsone, before leving Myitkyina

We stopped on the way to the MyitHsone to fill up the van and while the van was being filled, we had a photosession at the statue of SeeLone Chin Ei. In Arr…

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On the way to MyitHsone

the free petrol was and is Chinese petrol

the locals do not buy government petrol as it is more costly

we pass this statute many times on our visits to MyitHsone, Waing Maw – War Shaung – Sidone and the Myitkyina-Bhamo bus ride

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On the way to the MyitHsone

We stopped on the way to take a photograph in front of a Baptist training centre

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Traditional Kachin Long House at MyitHsone

After we got to the MyitHsone, we ordered lunch and then went to the long house nearby while lunch was being prepared. It was not inhabited and kept as show piece for visitors.

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Kachin long house at MyitHsone

There is a long pole at the right end of the photo. When we got home, a friend of P asked her whether we saw a Manaw pole at the MyitHsone. We did not see any with the traditional colours nor were we shown any by the driver. This pole is the only one in the photos looking like a pole. I do not know what it is and its significance.

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Decorations of the Kachin Long House

Note the decoration on top of the front end of the Kachin long house. Traditionally, sons live with their parents when they marry. The house is extended to accomodate the new family. As more sons marry, the house grows longer.

These types of long houses can also be seen in Indonesia

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the interior decorations of the long house

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Waiting for lunch

The place we had lunch was on the bank of the Ayeyarwaddy MyitHsone where it is out of the highest water level during the rainy season. The area below where there is sand and pebbles are under water then. However, the place where we had lunch will also be no more, all the surroundings of less than 300 ft height will be under water.

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lunch, Kachin style at MyitHsone

We had Kachin lunch at the MyitHsone Kachin HtaminHsaing, on the bank where the water level did not reach even during the rainy season. The famed MyitHsone fish Kin, chicken and fish Kachin style, and KhaungYae, without which it will not be complete. The KhaungYae was good, better than the ones I had tasted earlier, especially the one at a Kachin shop in MyayNiGone, Yangon, but not as good as the one we had later at Bhamo MaNaw Pwe.

The NgaKin was very delicious, with flavor similar to that of the NgaGyee Chauk, with excellent aroma of the HmaingTin. A lunch to be remembered all my life, not only because of the excellent taste, but also because I will never experience the MyitHsone lunch anymore as the MyitHsone will soon be gone after the completion of the dam and I will not be able to return there again before the MyitHsone is gone. It was quite difficult to make a decision to visit there although we wanted to for a long time. The presence of my elder son aung ko oo in Waing Maw and the beginning of the MyitHsone dam project ushered us there.

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the mother

the mother was besides me and was not anxious about her child

I had to make sure of it before handling the puppy

otherwise, I would be bittten and be in trouble

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Kachin puppy close up

The Kachin puppy was very cute. I wanted to fondle it for a long time, but dare not as I do not know the reaction of its mother. It was only after knowing that the mother was friendly, that I picked up the puppy. I wish I could take it with me home.

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The MyitHsone

After lunch, we went down to the riverside. There are MyitHsone pebbles / stones everywhere as  you can see in the photo. The MyitHsone is near the top right corner, with the Malikha joining it from the left to right. There are several shops on the bank of the MyitHsone, but we already had lunch up on the main bank.

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The MyitHsone

You can see the MayKha beyond the rocks forming the MyitHsone near the rock in the rear. The rock is the beginning of the AyeYarWaddy.

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The narrator / photographer at MyitHsone

You can see the MayKha on the right of the photo, joining the MyitHsone beyond the rock in the river. It became the AyeYarWaddy near the rock.

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Aung Ko Oo at MyitHsone

AKO had been to the MyitHsone earlier, while on his duty to the village nearby, but in Waing Maw township, that is on the eastern shore of the AyeYarWaddy. He and a Health Assistant travelled by motorbike from Waing Maw to that village via Myitkyina as travel from the west side is easier. They crossed the BalaMinHtin bridge and went along the MyitHsone (Sumprabum / Ledo) road

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the water is not so clear

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ako was handling an elongated stone as if he were “NgyokeHsone Htauung” / pounding with a pestle in the previous photo and I had him in the same pose again

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Pyone

and the pose of “pounding” became a good idea

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MyitHsone pagoda

we did not have the time to get there

and had to Phuu from a distance

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boat transport at MyitHsone

the boats / shaw tels at MyitHsone are very powerful

they come from Myitkyina to the MyitHsone and then up the MayKha to the gold mining areas

the area is rich in gold

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the wake of the shaw tels at MyitHsone

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the MyitHsone stones

it must have taken years and years for these stones to become rounded by the erosion of water, in river bed condition

the Ayeyarwaddy would have been flowing a long time

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Pyone in water

this is as far as Pyone got into water at MyitHsone

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NW in water

I got more into the water

the water was not very cold as when I was in Myitkyina during the rainy season in 1975

then, when I stepped into the water at the riverside, ankle deep, I had to get out quickly because it was icy cold

but local children were swimming in the river

maybe it is due to global warming

the Cold season this year is not cold

not even cold, but hot in November

is this year La Ninya?

The bad girl playing tricks

While the bad boy, the El Nino is away

dear all

I have to apologize to you all

that I did not anticipate swimming at all in my plan for the trip

and had not included a swimming trunk

or shorts

How very silly of me

Getting dotty at this age

I went on the trip with the barest amount of clothes

as I have to carry for P as well

with no son to help me carry in the first and last part of the trip

when I was on duty at the ShweWarChaing LuYeChun 1982 Camp

as Medical Officer

I had group photo taken with 2 teachers (males of course; I had photo taken with the mermaid at the defence guest house, Sandoway, but that is another story)

one from Lashio college, and one from a Chin High School

the 3 of us in swimming trunks

on the beach at Sandoway, actually ShweWarChaing

another teacher remarked on seeing the photo

ThonePyut TaKyat

with the inflation

I do not know what TaPyut will cost now

but I believe it will be over 1 kyat

maybe over 10 K

as there is scarcity of small notes

even a 50 K note is scarce

and so dirty and worn out

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Deeper in water, but not in trouble

the water was not very cold

just nice and cool

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walking in rapid flowing water

the water flow was very fast where I bathed

look at the ripples caused by the rapid water flow

I had difficulty wading

and was drawn along at a time when I laid down at knee depth

I had difficulty getting back to shore

you are lucky you will be seeing me again

or unlucky

otherwise

I might probably experience the 3 gorges of the AyeYarWaddy

postmortem

[when I was with the m.v. Road to Mandalay, I witnessed a corpse going past us one morning while we were at the Shwe Kyet Yet jetty

that day we went downriver and passed it on the way

the next day at Bagan mooring site, we witnessed it again passing us

that was the last I saw the corpse

no one seems to be interested in getting it out of the Ayeyarwaddy

I heard that whenever a corpse is seen in the river near the bank near the border of 2 townships, the police tried to push it off so that they will not have to report and open a case]

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both in water

I reached P at last

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I got in deep water with P (just a pun)

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and played around, testing the flow rate

the flow was quite fast

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the shaw tel in close view

they are powerful

and the main mode of transport to the gold mines

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I tried pounding too

to be Khit Hmi in style with ako

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shaw tel in close view

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I was collecting stones when photographed unawares

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MyitHsone stones I collected for photographing

the MyitHsone pebbles / stones are very beautiful indeed

and we all will miss them after the completion of the MyitHsone dam

they look better when wet

it must have taken ages for them to break up from rocks and eroded by the elements of nature to reach this shape

only to be submerged and lost by the MyitHsone dam

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after my bath

actually, I did bring my longyi

but because I am used to carrying an extra set of clothes

just in case

and therefore could change back

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MyitHsone stones

the time was late afternoon

and the photo was taken against the light

which is good for the stones

but not good for ako

but we did not have time to wait til next morning to take this view

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MyitHsone

The MyitHsone view again, with the characteristic rounded rocks on the foreground. The beginning of the great AyeYarWaddy and the InJinYan on the opposite shore in between the MayLi Kha and the May Kha rivers.

My friend Ko Khin Hla said that in 1981, it took a whole day to travel from Myitkyina to the MyitHsone, whereas it now takes only 2 hour by car because the road is not so good. Otherwise, it will be a 1 hour ride only.

Ko Khin Hla had to walk for 8 days from the MyitHsone to get to the InJin Yan town.

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a close up view of the MyitHsone

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Nyi Win on the bank of the MyitHsone

It is a strange phenomena that the MyitHsone stones occur only at the western side of the MyitHsone. Maybe U Soe Lwin and Ko Ko will be able to enlighten me and others about it. I understand that rocks break up into stones and they become rounded by erosion of the wind and water.

However, I saw many types of stones there. Is it a place where stones were deposited when the glaciers melted a long long time ago?

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Pyone and Aung Ko Oo beside a local boat

Kachin long house at MyitHsone

Journey to the North 2009 November Day-2 25-Nov Part 01 Myitkyina predawn to sunrise

December 18, 2009

dear all

these are the photos taken at Myitkyina riverside near the Nanthidar from predawn to after sunrise Dary-2, 25-Nov, was taken while P was preparing for the day

Journey to the North 2009 November Day-5 28-Nov Tagaung

December 15, 2009

narrator at Tagaung entrance

Prelude

I am now beginning this part ahead of the sequence which was still in Day-2, up to the Nalan Kha falls in my original mails, and Day-1, MyitHsone in the blogpost that I am creating, thanks to Ko Ko, who advised me to create a blog for my travels.

I jumped to this portion as a result of Ko Nyo Win Htun, who gave me advice on the travel modes from Myitkyina to Mandalay and back to Yangon, and who, having returned from his leave, asked me about my trip. As I told him about the trip, as I had done to several friends earlier, it was about Tagaung that we talked about much more than in my earlier talks. Ko NWH mentioned that I had reached the Tagaung, the origin of Myanmars, which one school of thought promotes “Myanmar AhSa. Tagaung Ga.”

I remarked that if one has to go earlier in the history of Myanmars, one has to go to northern India, as the Tagaung dynasties came from there.

As you all know, there are 2 school of thoughts regarding the origin of Myanmars:

Myanmar AhSa. Tagaung Ga.

and

Myanmar AhSa. Kyaukse Ga.

Both of them have their followers and as far as I know, there is no definite decision yet as to which is the correct one.

However, although I am neither a historian, nor an academician regarding archeology and human migration in Myanmar prehistory, I have my personal view that both are partly correct.

I have read as much as possible about Myanmar pre and early history from books:

  • U Ba Than’s “KyaungThone YarZaWin”, from which I was taught history during my 6th Standard, and which I had the opportunity to read again thanks to the SLORC, which reprinted it and the following
  • HmanNann YarZaWin republished at the same time
  • Dr. Than Tun (deceased), Professor and Head, Department of History, Mandalay University (many books published and available in the market)
  • History of Burma by G.H. Luce, Professor, Department of History, Rangon University

and articles from the internet written by

  • Bob Hudson, Archeology Department, University of Sydney, Australia
  • Elizabeth Moore
  • Pamela Gutman
  • Janice Stagardt

regarding

Pyu and prePyu civilizations of Myanmar, namely the Bronze age civilizations discovered earlier, the Nyaungkan, Myin-U Hle, Hnawkan and Kukkohla cultures in the Chindwin and Samon basins and the recently discovered sites in Ywagongyi village in Thazi township and Kanthitgon village in the same Thazi township giving evidence of the existence of Bronze Age civilizations in Myanmar.

their discussion about what is mentioned in the traditional Myanmar history and the facts obtained from archeology

their discussion about:

Pre-urban Upper Myanmar, c. 1500-500 BC.

The Samon Valley, c. 500 BC to AD 200.

Pre-Pyu Halin.

Pyu city states

including reference to the Rakhine history which is closely related to Bamar history from the time of KanRajaGyee who finally settled in the 3rd Dhanyawaddy, present day Rakhine, in 580 B.C.,  whereas KanRajaNge reigned over Tagaung after having won a contest to build a ManDat within a night

I must repeat that I am neither a historian nor an expert on archeology and human migration, but only an amateur hobbyist regarding human evolution, migration, prehistory and early history.

It is of my view that:

both schools of thoughts regarding the origin of Myanmars:

Myanmar AhSa. Tagaung Ga.

and

Myanmar AhSa. Kyaukse Ga.

are partly correct

the first city state to develop in Myanmar is Tagaung, where 1st Tagaung was established by AbiYarzar who came from India. Succeeded by younger son KanYarzarNge. KanYarzarGyi went to KaleTaunNyo and stayed for 6 mths. During the period Pyus, Kanyans asked for king and his son Dusetta was installed in ThunarParanta. KanYarzarGyi moved to Rakhine.

During 33rd king Beindaka’s rule, chinese invaded and destroyed 1st Tagaung. Beindaka retreated to MaLe chaung and died there

2nd Tagaung. Built during Buddha’s time by DazaYarzar who came from India. Married Nargasein queen of last king Beindaka (as they both were of TharKiWin blood)

it was the ruling clan from northern India who established Tagaung the 1st city state in Myanmar and ruled over the local Bamars

Bamars have lived in central Myanmar since the early Stone age (not entered the present Myanmar near Kyaukse only in the 9th century from current China across the Shan States trying to escape from the Nanchaos, as in the second school of thought)

That is why I mentioned that if one wants to go further back to the origins of Myanmars, one has to go to northern India where Ahbiyarzar and Dazayarzar, the ruling class of the first city state came from.

Or as I failed to mention to ko nwh, to the original KhaYaings where Bamars lived since early stone age and where they were concentrated in pre and early Bagan times: the LeTwinn Koe KhaYaing and the KhaYaings on the other bank of the AyeYarWaddy, the heartland of the original Bamars.

I will now continue with my narrative about my visit to Tagaung

As I had mentioned in my mail sent prior to the Journey to the North, Day-1, I had unexpected findings while at Tagaung. Before we got there, I had expected to see only the remains of part of the city wall and the ShweSiGone pagoda about which I had read and Pyone had said frequently there will only be old bricks and what is the use of going to Tagaung several times. But I insisted on going to Tagaung, and even told Pyone that she could fly back home from Myitkyina if she does not want to visit the Tagaung as we had no chance of experiencing all 3 MyitKyinns. I had a supporter in aung ko oo, who is also interested in history and the ancient sites we visited together: namely, in order we visited, Ava (InnWa), Bagan, Beikthano, ThaRayKhitTaYar, Dhanyawaddy, Waytharli and Mrauk-U.

We got off the bus at 01:30 on Day-5, 28-Dec at the junction to Tagaung. Tagaung is 2 miles away and cycle-carrys crowded on us trying to get customer. But I insisted on getting a tricycle as it will be difficult to go on motorcycle with our luggage. They wanted order and said that the price will be the same, 1500 per person, either motorcycle or tricycle. They called out the tricycle taximan and we loaded it and went off. Starting the tricycle was a strange way. The taximan pushed the tricycle down the slope (the way back towards Bhamo) and then push-started it with gear engaged (released clutch). It was only after a long time (it seemed to me) of sputtering (during which I gave up hope of the tricycle engine starting and thinking that we would have to return on foot to the toll gate where we got off to get motorcycle) that it finally started and on we went further and then turned left. There was no houses to be seen in the moonlight of the 12th waxing night of Nataw and it was very very cold with the wind on us.

The tricycle was stopped in the middle of nowhere and the taximan got down and looked around his tricycle. I asked him what the problem was and he replied that the front tyre had low air. I was worried as it will be impossible now to get motorcycles. However, he got on and on we went again and finally we got to human habitation. He dropped us at a TaeKhoKhann and had to call out for the manager for some time.

The manager came out and by the time we checked in, it was nearly 02:00. There was no light of course and no lights or candles provided. We had 2 flash lights, candles and lighter so there was no problem. After washing and toilet, we dropped into a slumber after a tiring bus ride from Bhamo.

I woke up at dawn and found that the lighter was out of order. There was only a torch with me at the time. The other was with ako.

When light came, we had KaukHnyinPaung and fries for breakfast.

I talked with a side-car man who was waiting for his customer about sightseeing in Tagaung. Later, the manager told him that his customer, a soldier, had already left on foot to the bus gate. I then hired him and told him to get another side-car for our sightseeing.

We were taken to the Nandawyar first. There are 2 Tagaungs. Actually 3 Tagaungs. 2 old Tagaungs and the current Tagaung which covers both old Tagaungs.

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Map of Tagaung and AhNyar Bagan aka Bagan era Tagaung

The old Tagaungs are Pyu Tagaung and Bagan era Tagaung also known as AhNyar Bagan and they have different city walls and are separate. The Nandawyar as it is being called nowadays is actually the Pyu Tagaung, with most of it now in the Ayeyarwaddy, being eroded over the years.

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Changing course of the Ayeyarwaddy at Tagaung

Even the course of the Ayeyarwaddy had changed. It pass the Tagaung on the east side in the past and now passes to the west of Tagaung. The change had occurred beyond the memory of the local people (it must have happened within the past 2500 years as Tagaung was first built before 580 B.C.) but there was documentation of the Ayeyarwaddy flowing on the east of Tagaung and there are still Inns, evidence of past riverbed on the east of Tagaung, but I did not have the time to visit them. It would be ideal to stay 2 nights in Tagaung to have a more complete tour.

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MyaukYinSunTan / OtTaRa YinSunTan post

This is where the tropical Myanmar ends and temperate Myanmar begins.

The Pyu Tagaung is in the temperate zone whereas the AhNyar Bagan in the tropics. The entrance of Tagaung can be seen in the rear.

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ako at entrance of the Tagaung

The wall of the entance of the Tagaung is still intact to my surprise. It would be over 2500 years old BP

It was only after taking this photo that I noticed the other side of the incurving wall on the opposite side of the road. The road enters the Tagaung gate as in the old times. This curved entrance wall is characteristic of the times and can be seen in Beikthano and Dhnyawaddy.

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narrator at Tagaung entrance

see both incurving walls at the entrance

the right one seen in 0273 is now in the shadows

and the left wall can be seen clearly in the sunlight spot

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Pauk Kyaing pagoda

This is one of the surprises I met at Tagaung. The Pauk Kyaing pagoda. In front of the NatNanns

Although I know about the story of Maung Pauk Kyaing, I never expected to see this stupa. I felt as if I got through the time machine and meet them. Visions of what I heard about since I was young reeled before me, as if I were seeing a movie or in life.

May Par Myarr.. SaGarr Ya.

Twarr Par Myarr.. KhaYee Yauk.

MaEik MaNay.. AhThet Shay..

and many more which I do not remember well

but including the “ChitTae.Thu HsaHtoe”

Tagaung looking for a new king to take over, with the Queen having a NaGarr for a lover

All would be Kings dead the night before coronation by unexplained means.

Maung Pauk Kyaing placing a bananna stem under a blanket waiting under covers with a knife

The Nagarr coming in during the night

looking at the long man like shape on the ThaLun

striking with its ??

and getting stuck in the bananna stem

Pauk Kyaing killing it before it could get free

Coronation of Pauk Kyaing

The Queen making a hairpin from the bone of the NaGarr

making a puzzle from the HsaDoe

Pauk Kyaing hearing what the male crow told the female crow.

etc.

It has been like a legend. But having been in Tagaung, I feel it might be true to a certain state, if not all, like all legendary histories of all people, such as King Aurthur’s sword, and the legendary Xia dynasty of China, now proven by recent archeological findings.

Xia Dynasty (ca. 2,100-ca. 1,600 BCE)

Although there is disagreement regarding the actual existence of the dynasty, there is some archaeological evidence pointing to its possible existence. The historian Sima Qian (145 BCE-90 BCE), who wrote the Shiji or Records of the Grand Historian and the so-called Bamboo Annals date the founding of the Xia Dynasty to 4,200 years ago, but this date has not been corroborated. Most archaeologists now connect the Xia to excavations at Erlitou in central Henan province,[15] where a bronze smelter from around 2000 BCE was unearthed. Early markings from this period found on pottery and shells are thought to be ancestors of modern Chinese characters.[16] With few clear records matching the Shang oracle bones or the Zhou bronze vessel writings, the Xia era remains poorly understood.

I have seen the Pauk Kyaing pagoda standing there, giving testimony to the reality of existence of King Pauk Kyaing. We might find more archeological findings regarding the King.

It was around the 1970s that the members of the Department of Archeology wrote that there were no preBagan findings in Tagaung. Now many PreBagan, Pyu artifacts have been found. I strongly believe we will find more in the future.

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The PaBe Maung Tint Tae Maung HnaMa. Nat Nann

This is another surprise for me.

I have heard of PaBe Maung Tint Tae since young. The blacksmith Tint Tae became strong and his fame spread far and wide. The king became fearful and made his sister a queen. Then he called Tint Tae to the Naypyitaw and burnt him at the foot of a certain tree. The queen also leapt into the fire and was also killed. Both bodies were thrown into the Ayeyarwaddy and drifted downriver till they reach Bagan where they became stuck on shore. They became Nats, two of the 37 Nats, gurarding the houses of all.

They are of later era than Pauk Kyaing, but their influence on our people and culture still exists in nearly every home.

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Main NatNann near the PaBe Maung Tint Tae Maung HnaMa. Nat Nann

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King U Aung Zeya’s AungMyay pagoda

This is also another surprise.

King U Aung Zeya’s ZiNa. Aung Char ShweBonThar  AungMyay pagoda

just beside the Pauk Kyaing pagoda

and in front of the Nat Nanns

I was taking photos and late getting there

As I was paying homage, a lady passerby said that if one circles the pagoda 7 times in a right turn and prays, his prayers will come true. LetYarYit Khu.Nit Pat Pat Pyee Hsu. Taung Yin..

Hsu. Taung.. Pyae. Dae..

so all three of us circled the pagoda in a LetYarYit 7 times and prayed separately. I prayed for happiness, as I usually do.

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Statute in King U Aung Zeya’s AungMyay pagoda

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The Tagaung Shwe SiKhone pagoda -445 BC (before damage)

The Bagan era Shwe SiKhine pagoda ?-445 BC, was damaged in 1987 and only the base remains.

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The Tagaung Shwe SiKhone pagoda -445 BC (remains)

The Bagan era Shwe SiKhine pagoda ?-445 BC, was damaged in 1987 and only the base remains.

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The remains of the AhNyar ShweSiGone

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Tagaung Shwe SiKhone pagoda and the LaeMyetHna pagoda hill with the Buddha images

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Buddha images excavated from the hill where the LeyMyetHna pagoda once stood.

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Excavation of the LayMyetHna pagoda hill from which the Big Buddhas were excavated

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AhNyar Bagan wall

close up view of the wall of AhNyar Bagan

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Tagaung museum

Although we got there at 09:00 and the notice mentioned that it opens at 9 a.m., we were told that it opens only at 09:30 and that the staff lives in the village, not nearby. As the boat was expected at 10:00, we could not wait till it opens and had to return to the TaeKho Khann to repack for leaving Tagaung.

We saw pillar remains in front of the museum, being surrounded and protected with concrete

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Tagaung museum zoom view

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Wall remains near Tagaung museum

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These remains of brick pillars (protected in concrete) means that there must have been a large building here, with the wall nearby.

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Lunch at Tagaung jetty shop

Having lunch at riverside shop while waiting for the ShutPyay which should have arrived on 10:00 but arrived soon after 11:00.

Had we known of the lateness and the exact time of arrival, we would have gone back to the museum to have a look.

BUT

Life is full of surprises and nothing comes out as planned.

I had a talk with a Tagaung native on the ShutPyay later and asked him about the Tagaung museum. He said that he had been inside only once and did not go anymore as they collect entrance fees and there is nothing he has not seen before. But there might be things which I have not seen before and missed because of the lateness of the curators opening the museum and the unannounced lateness of the ShutPyay.