Emergency numbers and help in Myanmar

The numbers

What to expect

• The public health sector is under severe strain, so an ambulance is not the reliable resource it is elsewhere. Private facilities in Yangon and Mandalay are the realistic destination.
• Under an overnight curfew, reaching emergency healthcare at night can be difficult.
• Call your insurer as soon as you are referred anywhere, because payment is usually demanded up front in cash.

Before you need them

• Save the numbers offline, and your embassy's too. The authorities cut internet access periodically, and a contact list in the cloud is not a contact list then.
• Agree a check-in routine with someone at home that survives an outage, since Facebook and WhatsApp are blocked without a VPN and the network can go down entirely.