The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a flash appeal in response to Myanmar’s devastating earthquake for $8 million to deliver life-saving trauma care, prevent disease outbreaks, and restore essential health services over the next 30 days.
Two powerful earthquakes have devastated central Myanmar, disrupting health services and putting thousands at risk of life-threatening injuries and disease outbreaks.
WHO is responding at its highest level of emergency activation, deploying nearly three tons of emergency medical supplies within 24 hours and coordinating global emergency medical teams, and multipurpose tents from its emergency stockpile in Yangon to hospitals in Mandalay and Nay Pyi Taw.
WHO is also providing operational support to Rapid Response Teams deployed in the affected areas and has mobilized its global Emergency Medical Teams (EMT) Network.
Additional critical medical supplies are prepositioned and ready for dispatch from WHO’s Dubai Logistics Hub. WHO continues to support national authorities in scaling up emergency health response in areas where healthcare systems were already fragile due to ongoing conflict and displacement.
On 28 March 2025, two powerful earthquakes struck central Myanmar’s Sagaing Region near Mandalay. The first, with a magnitude of 7.7, occurred at 12:50 p.m. local time, followed by a second of magnitude 6.4 at 1:02 p.m.
Both earthquakes occurred at a depth of 10 km, approximately 19 km northwest of Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city. Multiple aftershocks have since been reported, disrupting ongoing rescue operations. The earthquakes occurred along the Sagaing Fault, one of the world’s longest and most active strike-slip fault lines.
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