Screening + Q&A: Myanmar, The Last Hospital

30 Days in Myanmar with Stuart Ramsay chaired by Ramita Navai

‘The Last Hospital: 30 Days in Myanmar' goes to the heart of a jungle battleground in one of the most closed off countries in the world. Stuart Ramsay and his team embark on a month-long, undercover mission, highlighting the hidden struggle between Myanmar's resistance fighters and the oppressive military regime.

In the aftermath of the 2021 military coup, Ramsay’s team spent 2 years trying to gain access to the secretive resistance movement. In 2023 they gained access, and spent 30 days embedded with the rebels, documenting their resilience, the horrors they face, and the war crimes committed- and denied by- the military junta. Much of their time was spent at the epicentre of this war: a hospital at the heart of the jungle. Quite literally the lifeblood of the resistance movement, this hospital is the last of its kind as hospitals and medical facilities have been strategically bombed and eradicated. Nestled beneath the jungle's canopy, medics work tirelessly and with limited resources to perform surgeries by torchlight and draw on YouTube tutorials as their guidance - risking their own lives to save wounded fighters.

The film's ground-breaking access also highlights the undeniable evidence of war crimes. Sky News is now working with international agencies who are using this footage in ongoing investigations into human right’s abuses by the Myanmar military government.

As Sky News's Chief Correspondent, Stuart Ramsay reports on major global news stories and world events.He is Sky News’s longest-serving foreign correspondent, and has been posted to bureaus around the world, including Russia, the United States, South Africa, India, and Dubai.

Stuart has covered 18 separate wars over a 30-year career. His most recent assignments have focused on the war in Myanmar, the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, and the war in Ukraine, a story he has reported on since the conflict first began in 2014. Stuart has also reported extensively on the wars in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq, including the rise and fall of ISIS. He has investigated and documented the migrant crisis in South and Central America, and political upheaval in Venezuela.

Stuart Ramsay and his team made headlines last year when they were ambushed in Ukraine while driving just outside the capital Kyiv. He was shot in the lower back and recovered from his injuries before returning to continue reporting on the war.

Joining Stuart is his producer Dominique Van Heerden.

Dominique is a multi-award winning senior foreign news producer at Sky News, who has produced a number of major global stories in the field across Latin America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

Dominique specialises in breaking news and original storytelling. Her most recent stories have focused on the war in Ukraine, the unfolding hidden war in Myanmar, and the consequences of the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan in 2021.

Dr Thinn Thinn Hlaing spent 16 years working in the UK within the NHS, first as a Specialist Registrar in Clinical Biochemistry and Metabolic Medicine at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, and then as a Consultant in Chemical Pathology at Sheffield Teaching Hospital. Feeling the need to contribute to the development of Myanmar’s health sector, she returned to Myanmar in 2016 and joined THET (Tropical Health & Education Trust) as Country Director in January 2017.

Ramita Navai is a double Emmy and double Robert F. Kennedy award-winning British-Iranian investigative journalist, documentary maker and author. With a reputation for working in hostile environments, she has reported from over forty countries, made over thirty documentaries and features and worked as a foreign correspondent for print.