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Nay Win Maung dies of heart attack
Pivotal Burmese civil society leader Nay Win Maung has died of a heart attack, aged 50.
A close friend of the founder of the prominent Myanmar Egress group, Kyaw Linn Oo, told DVB that he was submitted to Rangoon General Hospital around 11pm last night.
“He suffered from vascular occlusion which led to a heart attack,” he said. “He was driving back home when the chest pain kicked in so he drove to hospital instead – his family followed him there after they learnt about it.”
Born in 1962, he graduated from Rangoon Medical University-1 in 1998, and went on to win a political science fellowship at Yale University in the US in 2004. He became CEO of the Living Colour Media Group, which publishes The Voice Weekly news journal, as well as forming Myanmar Egress.
“His death is such a great loss,” said Zeya Thu, coordinator at The Voice Weekly. “There are so many things left for him to do for our country.
“He knew that he was ill but he couldn’t find the time to attend to it. Now the heart disease has taken his life and he is such an irreplaceable loss to us. If we really love and respect him, we will have to keep striving to achieve his goals.”
Nay Win Maung became something of a controversial figure in his role at Egress, which critics see as closely aligned with the Burmese government. His relationship with President Thein Sein has come under scrutiny, with rumours circulating that Nay Win Maung scripted at least of Thein Sein’s key speeches after coming to power.
His admirers however see Egress as an increasingly influential force in Burma’s emerging civil society sector. Until his death, he had attempted to broker peace talks between the government and ethnic armed groups.
Maung Zarni a Burmese analyst and former acquaintance of Nay Win Maung, said: “While our political views came to diverge radically – and I had criticised him publicly – at the personal level I have always considered him a deeply patriotic man trying to do the impossible in spite of severe attacks on him, including from people like me.”
Dr Nay Win Maung is survived by his wife, Win Kalyar Swe, and four daughters. His funeral was held on 1 January at Yayway Cemetery in Rangoon.
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RIP Dr. Nay Win Maung. I’m honored that I had a chance to learn from you and saddened to realize that I was one of the last people you met.
It is great a lost for Myanmar people.
I have long admired his unwavering & struggling for democracy,in a way of writing policy papers and imparts education,not only to the young generations but also to the an elderly, it was a great lost to us all.
The trip, we went together to Germany is the first & last time for me, we together share our dreams and aspirations, of course, it is of great value of ethnic people.
As his classmate at Yale, I’d offer my condolences to his family and his colleagues who have been fighting for a better world.
At appproximately 10 pm ,we are busy in new year function.At that time ,one emergency ph comes from Witoyiya (Victoria ) hospital to one prominent physician.That Dr give very important instruction to MO from that hospital.I notice like this -1st,the hospital try the cardiac physician ,not pick up ph ,so they try another physician ,not pick up ph ,finally ,the ph call reach to 3rd physician and he give instruction to those MO regarding treatment by ph and immediately goes to that hospital and give emergency treatment and instructed to shift immediately to YGH but in vain.He passed away in YGH after end of 2011 and the start of 2012.He predict 2012 Myanmar future and but not predict for himself.What a pity…….
Don’t judge him by the heights (ေခ်ာတိုင္) we’ve reached but by the depths from which we’ve come because of his love to the country and 50 millions people.
Great lost for the country especially at this time. He was a good patriot who can contribute at the very high level.
Just want to share a few poems.
“Friends Departed”
They are all gone into the world of light!
And I alone sit ling’ring here;
Their very memory is fair and bright,
And my sad thoughts doth clear.
It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast,
Like stars upon gloomy grove,
Or those faint beamsin which this hill is drest
After the sun’s remove.
I see them walking in an air of glory,
Whose light doth trample on my days:
My days, which are at best but dull and hoary,
Mere glimmering and decays.
O holy Hope! and high humility,
High as the heavens above!
These are your walks, and you have show’d them me,
To kindle my cold love.
Dear, beauteous Death! the jewel of the just,
Shining nowhere, but in the dark;
What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust,
Could man outlook that mark!
He that hath found fledg’d bird’s nest may know,
At first sight, if the bird be flown;
But what fair well or grove he sings in now,
That is to him unknown.
And yet as Angels in some brighter dreams
Call to the soul, when man doth sleep:
So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes,
And into glory peep.
If a star were confin’d into a tomb,
Her captive flames must needs burn there;
But when the hand that lock’d her up gives room,
She’ll shine through all the sphere.
O Father of eternal life, and all
Created glories under Thee!
Resume Thy spirit from this world of thrall
Into true liberty.
Either disperse these mists, which blot and fill
My perspective still as they pass:
Or elese remove me hence unto that hill,
Where I shall need no glass.
Henery Vaughan
“Nothing Gold Can Stay”
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Than leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Robert Frost
“A Death Blow Is a Life Blow”
A Death blow is a Life blow to some
Who till they died, did not alive become_
Who had they lived, had died but when
They died, Vitality begun.
EMILY DICKINSON
All of us have only 3 minutes to get a job done before anyone in this situtation. Do not rely only on Medical assistance and their treatment. On the spot action from a Trained First Aider is very importance in this case. After 3 minutes, the situation will be worsen and he has a small chance of survival. Perhaps up to 15 minutes or slightly more. Please think carefully what is right and what is wrong to do. Then do what is necessary in future. Someone has to raise an alarm while others have to do something quickly to get him recover. Later when the medical assistances are available it is much better chance for him to survive. Similarly, in ther emergency cases like , snake bite, drowning, fires, accidents, falls, etc. Someone must look into it for better of others by displaying instructions at places , provide trainning to staff, SOP and guides, Emergency numbers, etc.