What is the name of your organization?
Atutu
What is the name of your solution?
Amplify Healthcare
Provide a one-line summary or tagline for your solution.
Transforming rural healthcare resiliency by bringing reliable solar power and enhanced digital services to remote healthcare facilities in Myanmar
In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?
United States
In what country is your solution team headquartered?
MMR
What type of organization is your solution team?
Hybrid of for-profit and nonprofit
Film your elevator pitch.
—
What specific problem are you solving?
Myanmar faces significant challenges when it comes to providing reliable healthcare services especially in rural regions. One of the main challenges facing Myanmar’s healthcare facilities is the lack of electrification throughout the country. The following World Bank report [https://tinyurl.com/379er4mz] shows that only 39% of the population has access to the national grid and rural regions such as Kachin state sit at an even lower rate of 13%. Lack of access to reliable energy and healthcare has been exacerbated due to Myanmar’s military coup in 2021 as well as the recent 7.7 magnitude earthquake that occurred March 28th, 2025. Facilities not only face constant electricity outages, but also skyrocketing fuel prices, direct targeting from the military, and a drain of nurses and doctors from the region. Furthermore, the ensuing civil war has internally displaced over 3.5 million people from their hometowns, and the national government has canceled many planned grid expansions that would provide reliable energy to remote villages. The recent earthquake has also created an urgent need for expanded healthcare services as thousands of casualties have been reported. It is now more urgent than ever that Atutu brings solar energy to critical healthcare facilities throughout the country.
What is your solution?
Atutu deployed a pilot project in May 2024 by installing a solar microgrid at a rural hospital in Northern Kachin [https://www.atutu.org/2024-nk-hospital-installation]. Building on the feedback and success of the project, we have designed a modular microgrid design, where we can change the number of inverters, solar panels, and batteries easily within a week's notice. Our base modular solar microgrid is equipped with 10 kW photovoltaic solar panels, 10 kW AC inverter, and a 30 kWh battery and can scale up or down by 5 kW at a time for inverters and 5 kWh for batteries. Designed to exceed remote healthcare facility needs, our system is able to power multiple LED lights, fans, charge laptops, and run vaccine refrigerators, oxygen supplies, and other critical medical equipment throughout the day. The microgrid is also designed to easily connect to the power grid to both supplement grid power and to also allow communities without grid power to connect to the grid once that service becomes available. With the power our systems provide, hospitals can increase their patient capacity, as well as add new services.
Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
Our solution is currently targeted at providing emergency electricity and healthcare services to those impacted by the recent 7.7 magnitude earthquake. Immediate services are needed for the thousands who have been injured or displaced due to this natural disaster. In addition long term healthcare services will be needed as well as communities rebuild. In addition we have been focused on providing electrification for healthcare centers in rural Kachin state. Hospitals in Kachin are required to service a greater proportion of people, at 760 patients/bed compared to urban areas like Yangon which service 640 people/bed [https://tinyurl.com/e3kypurm]. Facilities in rural areas of Myanmar also have reduced access to the electrical grid and often rely on expensive and polluting diesel generators. Our local experience informs us many of these healthcare facilities receive less than an hour a day’s worth of electricity from the grid and only have electricity 3-4 days per week. Our solution would address these needs by providing reliable electricity that exceeds the daily needs of the hospital and does not produce any harmful greenhouse gases unlike current alternatives such as diesel generators.
