A group of doctors, nurses and volunteers from Japan are providing medical services in Sagaing, Myanmar.

Japan Heart is a nonprofit organization that offers medical services at a hospital set up by a local Buddhist monk to treat the poor more than 20 years ago.

Pediatric surgeon Hideto Yoshioka, 48, founded the NPO in 2004 with his wife, Haruna, and four other people. Haruna is also a qualified doctor.