A vital medical aid service has been kicked out of Myanmar on accusations of lying.

Doctors Without Borders, or Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), has been told to stop all activities in the country, potentially leaving thousands without life-saving healthcare.

MSF reported it had treated 22 people after an apparent massacre in mid-January, which the Myanmar government denies took place.

Accused of fabricating the reports including a gunshot wound, stab wounds and beatings of dozens of people, MSF was told to suspend its services.

The organisation is shocked at the suspension, which follows an event the United Nations believed occurred as well.

UN reports suggest around forty people from the Rohingya ethnic group were killed by security forces and ethnic Rakhine Buddhist civilians in a restricted area of the western state.

A statement from the global aid group reads; “MSF is deeply shocked by this unilateral decision and extremely concerned about the fate of tens of thousands of patients currently under our care across the country,” and the events will have a “devastating impact” on the group’s 30,000 HIV/AIDS patients and over 3,000 tuberculosis patients.

Insiders say MSF has begun negotiations with government officials in the capital, Naypyidaw.

International leaders have pushed for humanitarian agencies to be allowed back into the Rakhine state.