[2][3] Later that year, Aye Nyein Thu travelled to Mindat Township, Chin State; at that time, the town and the surrounding area only had two working doctors.
[1][2][4] She set up a makeshift hospital with an operating theatre in order to provide medical care to Mindat residents and nearby villagers, as well as for camps of internally displaced people.
[1] In September 2021, the military junta accused Aye Nyein Thu of "inciting violence" and supporting the People's Defence Force, an anti-junta militant group.
[2] The junta have accused Aye Nyein Thu of working for Zaw Wai Soe, the health minister of the National Unity Government of Myanmar, the Burmese government-in-exile, and have called on residents of Mindat to arrest her.
[2] Aye Nyein Thu has also been accused by the military of misusing donations given to her hospital by giving them to anti-military groups; she has disputed this and has said that any financial irregularities were as a result of her lack of administrative skills.