Rural Health Centres in Burma

Ⅰ．Introduction

　Burma is a country with a population of about 28 millions, 85 percent of which live in rural areas having engaged in agriculture as their livelihood. Only a very rudimentary type of health and medical facilities had been improvised to these people during the pre-World War Ⅱ years. The country was subjected to British colonialism for about half a century. Then came the Second World War. Whatever had been existing was almost totally devastated during the war. There was complete breakdown of all the public health and medical facilities.