Anita Schug
rohingya refugee, doctor, humanitarian
Anita Schug is a Rohingya neurosurgeon and human rights activist based in Solothurn, Switzerland. At the age of five she fled Myanmar with her family, learned medicine in Ukraine and is a co-founder of the Rohingya Medics Organisation.
Early life
Schug was born in Rangoon, Myanmar. Doctors refused care to her mother at the hospital when giving birth because her family is Rohingya Muslim. Her father was a chemical engineer.
In the 1980s, when Anita Schug was five years old, her family fled Myanmar for Bangladesh, having paid people smugglers.
Her family then moved to Pakistan, to the United Arab Emirates and then to Ukraine, where Schug studied medicine. She speaks eight languages.
Career
Schug was the head of Women and Children Affairs for the European Rohingya Council and is the co-founder of the Rohingya Medics Organisation.
In 2017, she spoke of the thousands of Rohingya women killed in Rakhine state and confirmed reports of violence against Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
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