YANGON: With lights flashing and sirens blaring, volunteer ambulance driver Myint Hein weaves through traffic-choked Yangon, a lifeline in Myanmar where healthcare was crippled by decades of chronic underfunding during junta rule.

Emergency services were one of the many casualties of meager public spending and the retired bus driver is helping to plug gaps in a country still lacking a centralized ambulance system.

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