"HIGH IN the Naga Hills, at Hay Khun village, less than 25 kilometres from the border with India, women and children wrapped in traditional handmade blankets gather at a small wooden schoolhouse where a mobile medical clinic has been set up for the evening. By the morning, the doctors and nurses will have treated 27 people for ailments ranging from sore eyes to minor wounds, and provided pregnancy tests, all for free. The clinic is one of the several initiatives by international and domestic non-government organisations to help the government provide healthcare in one of Myanmar’s poorest areas, the Naga Self-Administered Zone, in Sagaing Region in the northwest of the country. The remote location of the Naga SAZ, which was established under the 2008 Constitution, has meant that the development of infrastructure, such as roads and telecommunications towers, has been slow. Its remoteness has also majorly limited the provision of healthcare. Many villages are accessible only by footpaths, and contact with health professionals is infrequent. Villagers speak of following practices rooted in their animist past before the arrival of missionaries and their conversion to Christianity, such as livestock sacrifices and drinking animal blood, when seeking cures for illness. A measles outbreak in 2016 that killed more than 40 people put the healthcare gaps in the Naga SAZ and their impact on its 62,000 residents in the national spotlight. Staff of the Ministry of Health and Sports claim they are doing what they can..."