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Saigon Adventist Hospital or US Army 3rd Field Hospital was an Adventist hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. It was a private hospital, formerly operated by the 
In March 1973, the hospital was moved from the location at the Phu Nhuan crossroads to the former US Army 3rd Field Hospital. The move was to be temporary until construction of a new hospital at another location was completed.
More than 410 employees and church workers escaped before the Vietnamese Refugees Burn Mortgage for Church Building
/ref> However, thousands of members and many pastors and teachers and other employees remained behind in Vietnam. The remaining members reorganised the work in Vietnam. Some of these members lost their lives while some were forced into re-education camps. Many of the workers could not move or travel from one area to another without permission. Most of the churches were shut down, and all the schools were closed.
Saigon: The Final Days by Ralph S. Watts
Hospitals affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church 1975 disestablishments in Vietnam Former Seventh-day Adventist institutions {{SeventhdayAdventist-stub
Saigon Adventist Hospital or US Army 3rd Field Hospital was an Adventist hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. It was a private hospital, formerly operated by the United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare, land military branch, service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight Uniformed services of the United States, U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army o ...
before being given to the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The hospital was operated by the Loma Linda University School of Medicine
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and performed the only open heart surgery operation in Vietnam
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at the time. The hospital was a former mansion converted to facilitate 38 hospital beds.
In March 1973, the hospital was moved from the location at the Phu Nhuan crossroads to the former US Army 3rd Field Hospital. The move was to be temporary until construction of a new hospital at another location was completed.
More than 410 employees and church workers escaped before the Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon, also known as the Liberation of Saigon by North Vietnamese or Liberation of the South by the Vietnamese government, and known as Black April by anti-communist overseas Vietnamese was the capture of Ho Chi Minh City, Saigon, t ...
./ref> However, thousands of members and many pastors and teachers and other employees remained behind in Vietnam. The remaining members reorganised the work in Vietnam. Some of these members lost their lives while some were forced into re-education camps. Many of the workers could not move or travel from one area to another without permission. Most of the churches were shut down, and all the schools were closed.
See also
*List of Seventh-day Adventist hospitals
The following is a list of Seventh-day Adventist hospitals.
North American Division
Adventist Health
* Adventist Health Bakersfield, Bakersfield, (formerly San Joaquin Community Hospital)
* Adventist Health Castle, Kailua, (formerly Castle ...
References
External links
Saigon: The Final Days by Ralph S. Watts
Hospitals affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church 1975 disestablishments in Vietnam Former Seventh-day Adventist institutions {{SeventhdayAdventist-stub