The Yangon Central Women's Hospital ( my, ရန်ကုန် ဗဟို အမျိုးသမီး ဆေးရုံ) is a public hospital in

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 ...

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...

. It is also a tertiary care teaching hospital of the

University of Medicine 1, Yangon The University of Medicine 1, Yangon ( my, ဆေးတက္ကသိုလ်(၁) ရန်ကုန် ; formerly the Institute of Medicine 1), located in Yangon, it is the oldest medical school in Myanmar. The university offers M.B., B.S. ( ...

, the

Yangon Institute of Nursing 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 ...

, and the

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

History

The hospital was formerly known as "Dufferin Hospital", after

Hariot Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava Hariot Georgina Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava (5 February 1843 – 25 October 1936) was a British peeress, known for her success in the role of "diplomatic wife," and for leading an initiative to improve medical ca ...

References

Hospital buildings completed in 1960 Hospitals in Yangon {{Burma-hospital-stub