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Curative services are provided by various categories of health institutions. There are General
hospitals, Specialist hospitals, Teaching hospitals, Region/State hospitals, District hospitals,
Township hospitals in urban area. Sub‐township hospitals, Station hospitals, Rural Health
Centres and Sub‐Rural Health Centres are serving rural people by providing comprehensive
health care services including public health services with available diagnostic facilities.
Station Hospitals including Sub‐township Hospitals are basic medical units with essential
curative elements such as general medical and surgical services and obstetric facilities. The
population who are residing in rural area are covered by Station Hospitals. Township Hospitals
are providing health care services including laboratory, dental and also major surgical
procedures and acting as the first referral health institutions for those who require better care.
Specialist services are well accessed at District and some 50 bedded Township Hospitals where
high dependency units or intensive care unit with life saving facilities are available. More
advanced secondary and tertiary health care services are provided at the Region/ State Level
hospitals, Central and Teaching hospitals.
To ensure adequate coverage of hospital services in every Region and State, hospital upgrading
project was planned and implemented. It also includes establishment of new hospitals in remote
area and increasing hospital beds for those area with high population density especially the
districts with rapid socioeconomic development.
Institution based health care quality is improved during last few years. Most of the central,
teaching and Region/State hospitals are equipped with modern diagnostic and therapeutic
facilities such as CT scans, MRI, linear accelerator, Digital X‐rays etc. Majority of referral cases
have accessed to high quality medical care services at district hospitals and above. More than
100 ambulances have been provided to public hospitals in 2014.
As a result of strengthening the hospitals by deployment of competent human resources and
installation of modern diagnostic and therapeutic equipment, various sophisticated surgical and
medical interventions like renal transplant, open heart surgery, cardiac catheterization,
angiogram and plastic surgery of traumatically amputee limbs are performed in specialist
hospitals.
In addition to structural coverage and functional quality, more patient centered, responsive and
accountable curative services are provided by health staff. Regarding equity in health care, more
grass root level centers such as RHCs, Sub‐centers and Station hospitals are established,
renovated and upgraded either for rural areas and border areas.
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The healtth development and provvision of meedical care seervices for border
b area have
h been
implemen nted since 1989 and up to o December o of 2013, 100 h hospitals, 99 dispensaries, 123 rural
health ceentres and 314
3 sub‐rural health centtres have beeen establishhed and are now well
functioninng in co‐ope
eration with other related departmen nts and miniistries, particcularly the
Ministry oof Border Affaairs.
With parttnership approach, provission by the Government
G and donation n by private donors of
hospital eequipment an nd supplies haave been a cu ustom in almost all hospittals in Myanm mar. Based
on religio
ous and sociaal customs, Myanmar
M peo de assistance for social
ople are eagger to provid
works. Loocal commun nity and private donors have
h contribu uted for curaative health service in
terms off cash or fulfilling
f hospital needs including medical
m equipment. Thee Hospital
Managem ment Committtees led by local administrative authority and members
m from related
departmeents are orgaanized and are
a then making coordinated effort to t fulfill neeeds of the
hospitals according to functional requirements.
Public ho
ospitals throu
ughout the country
c are stipulated
s to
o raise and establish
e trusst fund to
support the
t patients who are neeeded. Patientts with emerrgency mediccal problemss including
emergenccy surgery, obstetric patieents are now provided with essential medicines an nd medical
items freee of charge att the public hospitals.
Supervision n visit to
Bawllake District h
hospital,
Kayyah State
Supervission visit to
Tangyanng Township H Hospital
in Shan SState
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With the introduction of market economy and health sector reforms, the expansion and quality
upgrading of private sector is essential for the quantity coverage and quality upgrading of health
care services for the community.
Private health care services in Myanmar are now being regulated according to the Law relating
to private health care services (2007) and its amendment law (2013). The Government formed
the central body relating to private health care services in 2007 consisting of the Union Minister
of the Ministry of Health as Chairman, the Deputy Minister for the Ministry of Health as Deputy
Chairman, the Director General of the Department of Health as Secretary, Head of Union
Minister’s office as Joint secretary and 16 members. The central body formed supervisory
committees relating to private health care services at the regional, state, District and township
levels and assigned functions and duties. Therefore, the private health care services are now
regulated by the central body and the different levels of the supervisory committees.
The central body issues the license for any private health care services other than the private
general clinic service. The Regional and State supervisory committees issued the license for
private general clinic service. Licensing mechanism is according to the law relating to the private
health care services. A person desirous of establishing of any private health care services is
needed to submit their application to the relevant township supervisory committee. The
township supervisory committee, after scrutinizing the application, submit to the district
supervisory committee and district supervisory committee submit to the region and state
supervisory committee stage by stage together with remarks.
Each Regional and State supervisory committees is composed as the Minister for Social affairs
from each Regional and State government as the chairman. Different level of administration
plays the important role in regulation of private health care services.
Control and promotion of quality of private health care services will be done by suitable experts
from the respective Departments under the Ministry of Health.
Upgrading of five hospitals in Yangon and Mandalay such as Mandalay Children Hospital,
Mandalay General Hospital, Central Women Hospital‐Mandalay, Yangon Children Hospital and
Central Women Hospital‐Yangon, is in process with the Grant aid support from Japanese
Government. With the grant aid support from Japanese Government, upgrading of Lashio State
Hospital in Shan State and Loikaw State Hospital in Kayah State will also be conducted.
Preparatory survey team from JICA visited Myanmar in October, 2013 and the assessment study
was done in Lashio State Hospital and Loikaw State Hospital to get the technical information of
their needs.
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