Breathless, fevered and without the extra oxygen that could help keep them alive, the coronavirus patients at a hospital near Myanmar's border with India highlight the threat to a health system near collapse since February's coup.
To help her tend to the seven COVID-19 patients at Cikha hospital, day and night, chief nurse Lun Za En has a lab technician and a pharmacist's assistant.
Mostly, they offer kind words and paracetamol.