8 April 2025
Chairman of the State Administration Council Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, accompanied by Council Joint Secretary General Ye Win Oo and party, this evening inspected loss and damage at the medical wards and staff housings of Nay Pyi Taw People’s Hospital (300-bed) caused by Mandalay earthquake.
The Senior General and party viewed round damaged parts of medical wards, special intensive care units, staff housings, and operation theatres in the compound of the hospital where the Union Minister for Health and officials conducted the Senior General round the buildings.
In his response to the clarification the Senior General stressed the need to systematically examine damage and loss with the assistance of construction experts to repair necessary buildings and demolish dangerous buildings for construction of new buildings.
It is necessary to coordinate reconstruction measures among construction engineers and water and power supply officials to systematically calculate construction of buildings with resilience of possible natural disasters. According to scrutiny over collapsed buildings in the earthquake, it is necessary to take lessons of dreadful loss in past events which officials did not construct the buildings in line with the set standards.
As such, officials need to supervise construction of buildings systematically.
As Nay Pyi Taw People’s Hospital (300-bed) bears a large number of loss and damage at buildings caused by the earthquake, medical treatments are being given to patients at Zeyathiri Township Hospital (50-bed) temporarily.
