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(From Bangkok Post)
Byline: MAXMILIAN WECHSLER
Dr Cynthia Maung, the "Mother Teresa of Burma", is the recipient of many international awards, including the 2002 Magsaysay Award for community leadership. She runs the Mae Tao Clinic in the bustling Thai town of Mae Sot bordering Burma.
The word "hospital" is more appropriate for the complex that consists of several wooden buildings whose signs, written in English and Burmese, identify them as Emergency, Registration, Surgical Department, Prosthetic Workshop and others.
Dr Cynthia was born into a Karen family at Insein Township, Rangoon on December 6, 1959. She studied at Rangoon ...