The Insein General Hospital ( my, အင်းစိန်ဆေးရုံ) is a 500-bed public hospital and teaching hospital located in northern part of

Yangon Yangon ( my, ရန်ကုန်; ; ), formerly spelled as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar (also known as Burma). Yangon served as the capital of Myanmar until 2006, when the military government ...

, with 9 in-patient wards and 6 specialty clinics.

History

In 1930, a well-known wealthy man in British rule, Sir Pho Thar, built and donated a 50-bed station hospital as an ancient colonial style building. Thus, it was known as Sir Pho Thar Hospital at that time. It was upgraded to 100-bed general hospital in 1952, 150-bed with specialty units for dentistry, orthopedics, laboratory and radiology in 1965 and 300-bed in 1991. With all these development, it became a central level government hospital in July 1995. In 1996, a new 3-storey building and a guard ward for imprisoned patients with 20 beds were developed. Prisoners from

Insein Prison Insein Prison ( my, အင်းစိန်ထောင်) is located in Yangon Division, near Yangon (Rangoon), the old capital of Myanmar (formerly Burma). From 1988 to 2011 it was run by the military junta of Myanmar, named the State Law and ...

are admitted in this guard ward as the prison is located nearby the hospital.

Wards

* General Medical Ward * General Surgical Ward * Obstetrics & Gynecological Ward * Pediatric Ward * Trauma & Orthopedic Ward * Ophthalmological Ward * Otorhinolaryngological Ward * Intensive Care Unit * Sanga Ward for Buddhist Monks * Guard Ward for Imprisoned Patients * Oncology Ward

Specialty clinics

* Elderly Clinic * Dentistry Clinic * Physical Medicine * Psychiatric Clinic * Tuberculosis Clinic * ART Clinic * Dermatology clinic * Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinic * Medical Oncology Clinic

Diagnostic departments

* Radiology Department * Pathology Department * Microbiology Department

Auxiliary departments

* Medical Record Department * Medical Store Department * Kitchen * Laundry * Motor Transport

Teaching programs

The hospital became a teaching hospital of

University of Medicine 2, Yangon The University of Medicine 2, Yangon ( my, ဆေးတက္ကသိုလ်(၂) ရန်ကုန် ; formerly, Institute of Medicine 2) is a university of medicine, located in North Okkalapa, Yangon, Myanmar. The university offers M.B., ...

in 1993. It is also affiliated with

University of Medical Technology, Yangon The University of Medical Technology, Yangon ( my, ဆေးဘက်‌ဆိုင်ရာ နည်းပညာ တက္ကသိုလ် (ရန်ကုန်) ; formerly, the Institute of Paramedical Science, Yangon) is one of three unive ...

University of Pharmacy, Yangon The University of Pharmacy, Yangon ( my, ဆေးဝါး တက္ကသိုလ် (ရန်ကုန်) ), located in North Okkalapa, Yangon, is one of two pharmacy schools in Myanmar. The university offers Bachelor of Pharmacy (BPharm) ...

and

University of Nursing, Yangon The University of Nursing, Yangon ( my, သူနာပြု တက္ကသိုလ် (ရန်ကုန်) ; formerly The Institute of Nursing, Yangon) is a nursing university, located in Lanmadaw Township, Yangon, Myanmar. It is one of thr ...

Undergraduate

* MBBS degree ** Third MB ** Final part II ** House surgeon * Postgraduate ** M Med Sc (Internal Medicine) ** Dip Med Sc (Hospital Administration) * Others ** Nursing training ** Pharmacist training ** Paramedical sciences (Radiology, physiotherapy and lab technicians)

References

{{reflist Hospitals in Yangon Hospitals established in 1930