Than Sitt Charity Clinics

Background
  • Than Sitt Charity Clinics, established on 3rd May 2017 in Yangon and 1st January 2018 in Mandalay
  • In memorial of Late Prof. Dr. U Than Sitt (Famous Hepatologist of Myanmar and Founder of MLF)
Vision
  • Creating Myanmar with low burden of chronic liver diseases
Mission
  • To furnish the comprehensive health care services for chronic hepatitis B and C patients at an affordable cost, in alignment with National Hepatitis Control Program of the Ministry of Health and Sports
Objectives
  • To deliver the preventive services for liver diseases
  • To provide the consultation services for chronic hepatitis B and C cases
  • To offer the advanced investigation services and treatments for chronic liver diseases at subsidized costs
Than Sitt Charity Clinic – 1 (Yangon)
Address No 33-35, Ground Floor, Pathein Street, KyunTaw (Middle) Ward, Sanchaung Township, 11111, Yangon
Phone 09 9644 82820 , 09 9645 82820
Email clinic-ygn@liverfoundationmm.org
Than Sitt Charity Clinic – 2 (Mandalay)
Address No-B(8), Thiri Avenue (1), 35 street, Between 70th & 71st Streets, Mahar Aung Myay Township, Mandalay
Phone 09-9544 82820 , 09-9545 82820
Email clinic-mdy@liverfoundationmm.org
Services available at Than Sitt Charity Clinics
  • Counseling to patients regarding Hepatitis disease testing and treatment
  • Laboratory screening to Hepatitis B and C
  • Medical consultation and Treatment with Hepatologists
  • Provision of health education pamphlet ,necessary documents, record books and laboratory forms
  • Assessment of liver status by fibroscan and ultra-sonogram
  • Hepatitis B Vaccination
  • Basic laboratory testing
  • Advanced laboratory testing with subsided costs
  • Antiviral drugs available in reasonable and fair prices
  • Proper referral of patients to the hospital if needed.
Services provided and No. of patients attending at Than Sitt Charity Clinic (Yangon)
(from May 2017 to Sept 2018)
Sr. No Type of Services Number of Patients
1 Consultation & Treatment of HBV Patients 2336
2 Consultation & Treatment of HCV Patients 2046
3 Consultation & Treatment of HBV + HCV Patients 100
4 Consultation & Treatment of HCV + HIV Patients 72
5 Counseling 4554
6 HBsAg Screening 3420
7 Anti-HCV Screening 5150
8 Basic laboratory testing ( HBV markers + RBS) 4894
9 Ultrasound Imaging 2790
10 Fibroscan Imaging 2124
11 Hep-B Vaccination 8255
Services Available at Than Sitt Charity Clinic (Yangon)
  1. Provision of necessary documents, record books, laboratory forms & HE pamphlets (FOC)
  2. Counseling of patients regarding Hepatitis disease testing and treatment by trained Medical Officers (FOC)
  3. RDT screening of Hepatitis B and C infections (Subsidized costs / FOC)
  4. Basic laboratory testing (Subsidized costs / FOC in project)
  5. Advanced laboratory (Biochemical, Hematological & VL) testing (Subsidized costs / FOC in project)
  6. Assessment of liver status by ultrasound & fibro-scan (Cost sharing / FOC)
  7. Medical consultation and treatment by Hepatologists & trained MO (FOC)
  8. Prescription of Antiviral drugs in reasonable and fair prices (Subsidized costs / FOC in project)
  9. Proper referral of patients to the tertiary & specialist hospitals if needed
  10. Hepatitis B Vaccination (Subsidized costs / FOC)
Summary of all services provided at TSCC (Yangon) in 2024
Sr No Type of patients & Services Provided Jan - Dec 2024 May 2017 - Dec 2024
1 No of attending HBV Patients 925 7586
2 No of attending HCV Patients 334 4809
3 No of attending (HBV + HCV) Patients 22 238
4 No of HBV patients taking Antiviral treatment (FOC patients) 628 (301) 3915 (744)
5 No of HCV patients taking DAA treatment (FOC patients) 182 (106) 3400 (2039)
6 No of (HBV + HCV) patients taking Antiviral treatment 25 126
7 HBsAg Screening 4527 30500
8 Anti-HCV Screening 4863 34546
9 Viral Load Determination (GxPert) 93 2200
10 Ultrasound Imaging 829 6722
11 Fibro-scan Imaging 43 2861
12 Hep-B Vaccination 13596 81433
Summary of Services provided at MLF Township Branches in 2024

Sr No. MLF Township Branches Health Education on Talks Screening HB Vaccination Antiviral Treatment
HBV HCV HBV HCV
1. Yangon (Than-Sitt Charity Clinic) 15 4527 4863 13596 628 182
2. Mandalay 3 600 600 596 1 2
3. Mawlamyine 34 359 360 441 54 63
4. Pathein 2 191 191 100 4 2
5. Kyaukpadaung 10 320 320 210 12 2
6. Pyinmana 16 464 464 237 15 6
7. Taungoo 25 640 640 647 13 15
8. Tharawady 24 232 180 370 14 25
9. Hmawbi 4 335 335 124 8 6
Hepatitis B Vaccination Coverage by Myanmar Liver Foundation Supported by Donors (both local & abroad) & Ministry of Health and conducted by all Branches of MLF (Feb 2013 to Dec 2024)
  • 14 States & Regions (Feb 2013 to Dec 2024)
  • Approx . 1,000,000 persons vaccinated with 3 doses of HB Vaccine

Table 1: Health Care Services Provided at MLF’s Than Sitt Charity Clinic, Yangon in 2025
(သံစစ်ကုသိုလ်ဖြစ်ဆေးခန်း၊ ရန်ကုန်မြို့တွင် ကျန်မာရေးဝန်ဆောင်မူပေးခြင်း)
Sr No Type of Patients & Services Provided Number of Patients
Jan – Dec 2025 May 2017 – Dec 2025
1 No of attending HBV Patients 975 8,561
2 No of attending HCV Patients 443 5,252
3 No of attending (HBV + HCV) Patients 26 264
4 No of HBV patients taking Antiviral treatment (FOC patients) 716 (140) 4,631 (884)
5 No of HCV patients taking DAA treatment (FOC patients) 303 (238) 3,703 (2,277)
6 No of (HBV + HCV) patients taking Antiviral treatment 35 161
7 HBsAg Screening 4,926 35,426
8 Anti-HCV Screening 5,326 39,872
9 Viral Load Determination (GXPert) 381 2,581
10 Ultrasound Imaging 1,340 8,062
11 Fibro-scan Imaging 54 2,915
12 Hep-B Vaccination 14,020 95,433
Table (2) Activities of Health Education, Screening, HB vaccination and Linkage to care services implemented by MLF ( HQ / Yangon ) in the community during 2025
( ရန်ကုန်မြို့ တွင် ပြည်သူလူထုအတွင်းသို့ ကွင်းဆင်း ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ဆောင်မှုပေးခြင်း )
စဥ် ရက်စွဲ နေရာ ဘီ/စီပိုး စစ်ဆေး ပေးခြင်း (လူဦးရေ) ဘီပိုးကာကွယ်ဆေးထိုးနှံ ပေးခြင်း (လူဦးရေ)
၁ ၁၇-၅-၂၅ သီလရှင်ကျောင်း ၊ အလယ်တောရ ပရိယတ္တိစာသင်တိုက် ၊ ဗဟန်းမြို့နယ် ၂၀ ၂၀
၂ ၂၄-၇-၂၅ နားမကြားသော ကလေးများကျောင်း ၊ လူမှုဝန်ထမ်းဦးစီးဌာန ၊ တာမွေမြို့နယ် ၉၀ ၈၉
၃ ၂၇-၇-၂၅ ဆည်ဆာရိပ်ဘိုးဘွားရိပ်သာ ၊ အရှေ့ဒဂုံမြို့နယ် ၄၀ ၄၀
၄ ၂၈-၇-၂၅ ကုတင်(၅၀၀) အထူးကုဆေးရုံကြီး ၊ လမ်းမတော်မြို့နယ် ၈၅ ၈၃
၅ ၂၉-၇-၂၅ မိခင်နှင့်ကလေးစောင့်ရှောက်ရေး (ANC) နေ့သစ်ကျန်းမာဆေးခန်း ၊ တောင်ဒဂုံမြို့နယ် ၃၁ ၃၀
၆ ၃၁-၇-၂၅ လူငယ်လေ့ကျင့်ရေး စခန်း (PWID) ၊ မဂ္ဂလာဒုံမြို့နယ် ၃၉ ၃၆
၇ ၇-၈-၂၅ ရန်ကုန်ပြည်သူ့ဆေးရုံကြီး ၊ လသာမြို့နယ် ၁၀၁ ၁၀၀
၈ ၂၁-၈-၂၅ နာရေးကူညီမှုအသင်း (ရန်ကုန်) ၊ မြောက်ဒဂုံမြို့နယ် ၁၁၄ ၁၁၀
၉ ၁၈-၉-၂၅ အောင်သပြေတောရ ဘုန်းတော်ကြီးကျောင်း ၊ သာကေတမြို့နယ် - ၃၀
၁၀ ၂၉-၁၂-၂၅ ဆရာကြီး ဒေါ်ဥာဏစာရီ သီလရှင်ကျောင်းတိုက် ၊ စမ်းချောင်းမြို့နယ် ၇၉ ၁၄၈
Table 3: Virtual Knowledge Sharing Session & Health Education Talks provided by MLF for capacity strengthening of health care personnel during 2025
No Date Titles Speakers
1 18-3-25 Prevention and Control of Hepatitis A Viral Infection Dr. Khin Pyone Kyi
2 18-3-25 Snake Bite Envenomation and Anti-venom Therapy Dr. Win Aung
3 10-6-25 Challenges in facing health related problems during and after the devastating earthquake in Myanmar Dr. Khin Pyone Kyi
4 10-6-25 Metabolic Dysfunction Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) Dr. Zin Nwe Myint
5 9-9-25 Dangerous effects of substances causing transient amnesia with mental submission (တို့ဆေး) Dr. Khin Pyone Kyi
6 9-9-25 Availability of Services at Than Sitt Charity Clinic for Management of Viral Hepatitis in Yangon, Myanmar Dr. Yi Yi Sein
7 9-12-25 Autoimmune Hepatitis Dr. Khin Pyone Kyi
8 9-12-25 Background of Human Organ Transplantation: Liver Transplantation Updates Dr. Mya Mya Mu