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The Department of Public Health (Myanmar) is part of the Ministry of Health and Sports (Myanmar). [1] [2] The Department has five main Units. Director-General's office; Disease Control; Public Health; Disaster; Admin and Finance; Each unit has divisions. Each division has a Director, Deputy Director, Assistant Director, Medical Officer, Health ...
The Ministry of Health (Burmese: ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန, Burmese pronunciation: [tɕáɰ̃màjé wʊ̀ɰ̃dʑí tʰàna̰]; abbreviated MOH) is a national government-run ministry administering health affairs and health care in Myanmar, including all of the medical schools.
On 25 May 2016, under Htin Kyaw's Government, it was renamed to Ministry of Health and Sports, regrouping both ministries in one governing body. [1] On 1 August 2021, the SAC reconstituted the Ministry of Health and Sports as Ministry of Health and Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs. [2] [3]
Both public and private hospitals are understaffed due to a national shortage of doctors and nurses. Public hospitals lack many of the basic facilities and equipment. WHO consistently ranks Myanmar among the worst nations in healthcare. [4] As of 2020, Myanmar had a total population of over 54 million people.
Case-15 is a 45 years old Burmese woman from Bahan Township, Yangon, who works at a private clinic providing healthcare to foreigners. She started having the symptoms of fever, sore throat, and coughing on 27 March 2020 and sought medical attention at the Department of Public Health in Bahan on 30 March 2020.
Medical schools in Myanmar (1 C, 20 P) Pages in category "Medical and health organisations based in Myanmar" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
The university was founded in 2007 to strengthen the public health system (including human resources for public health) and infrastructure in Myanmar. [3] It is to help strengthen referral systems by providing technical back-up. Referral facilities for primary, secondary and tertiary care are important to effective community health work.
Formally, the graduates are allowed to practice as Health Assistants (HA) in Department of Public Health and FDA of Myanmar, many of whom are the main providers of primary health care in rural Myanmar where access to regular physicians is difficult. First, it was established as Health Assistant’s training school in Yangon in 1951.