VICE-CHAIRMAN of the State Administration Council Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior General Soe Win delivered an address at the ceremony to mark the centennial celebration of No 1 Military Hospital (700-bed), the centennial celebration, opening of the cancer radiation treatment ward and the 30th Myanmar Tatmadaw Medical Conference at the hospital in PyinOoLwin yesterday morning.
The Vice-Senior General highlighted
that researchers from the Tatmadaw Medical Research Unit, the Defence Services
Medical Academy, the Defence Services Institute of Nursing and Paramedical
Sciences, military hospitals and medical battalions are conducting medical
research meeting international standards for providing healthcare services to
Tatmadaw members and people.
Research findings were applied in
diagnostic measures, treatment and preventive arenas to benefit the Tatmadaw
and the State. Especially, research findings obtained during the Covid-19
pandemic period could be utilized in prevention, searching and treatment
measures, securing much success, he added.
The Vice-Senior General honoured
members of medical services with fine traditions who made sacrifices in medical
duties at the frontlines in the military operations of the Tatmadaw. Moreover,
he noted that those medical staff gave health treatments to people during the
ordinary period and actively participated in the medical services during the
disaster period.
He continued that they served the
medical duties in Chin State and Naga Self-Administered Zone for public health
care services. So, their efforts prove their activities of upholding the ethnic
affairs of the Tatmadaw.
With regard to cancer treatment, the
Vice-Senior General disclosed that medical equipment for radiation treatment
has been installed at the No 1 Military Hospital (700-bed) in PyinOoLwin for
cancer disease. As such, Tatmadaw members, families and people in the upper
Myanmar will have medical treatment for cancer diseases at the hospital, he
added.
The Vice-Senior General explained the
history of the hospital and its significant capacity, maintenance of
100-year-old historic buildings at the hospital, and holding of the Myanmar
Tatmadaw Medical Conference.
At the ceremony, Lt-Gen Ko Ko Oo of
the Office of the Commander-in-Chief (Army), Commander Brig-Gen Kyi Khine and
Director of Medical Services Maj-Gen Ko Ko Lwin cut the ribbon to open the
centennial celebration of No 1 Military Hospital (700-bed).
The Vice-Senior General unveiled the
signboard to mark the centenary No 1 Military Hospital (700-bed) and the cancer
radiation treatment ward of the hospital and comforted the patients.
The Vice-Senior General and Chief of
the General Staff (Army, Navy and Air) General Maung Maung Aye presented prizes
to outstanding Tatmadaw members.
With regard to the No 1 Military
Hospital (700-bed), the British established the British Military Hospital
(25-bed) in 1923.
The hospital was reconstituted as
British Military Hospital (50-bed) in 1931, No 8 Military Hospital (100-bed) in
1943, No 1 Military Hospital (Maymyo) in 1946 and Burma Army Hospital (300-bed)
in 1948. The facility was renamed Based Military Hospital (500-bed) in 1963 and
No 1 Based Military Hospital (500- bed) in 1963. Moreover, it was upgraded to
No 1 Based Military Hospital (700-bed) in 1986 and No 1 Military Hospital
(700-bed) in 2002.
The Vice-Senior General met officer
trainees, officer instructors and families from PyinOoLwin Station at the
convocation hall of the Defence Services Academy yesterday afternoon.
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