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Tatmadaw now has no unreachable place and it can almost cure any kind of disease in its healthcare services, Chairman of the Sate Administration Council Senior General Min Aung Hlaing said at the ceremony to mark 75th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee Military Medical Corps Day which fell on 1 October.
History stands witness to the brilliant endeavours of the military medical corps throughout the independence struggle and its dutiful services for the country. Members of the corps proved their dutifulness and courage in many operations and battles of the Tatmadaw including the battle of Insein and Kunmington intrusion. The corps brought about many outstanding and gallant persons like Capt Thura Mon Htaw Thet Nyunt all along the history, the Senior General added.
In addition to its battle field duties, the corps is providing healthcare and treatment services to officers, other ranks and families and local people at the military hospitals, the Senior General continued.
The military hospitals upgrading program covers four hospitals that can conduct kidney transplant surgery, one hospital that can conduct liver transplant surgery, four hospitals that can conduct cardiovascular diagnosis and vascular dilation, two hospitals that can conduct heart surgery, and three hospitals that can cure cancer with radio therapy. Thanks to the upgrading program, Tatmadaw can now provide advanced international-level treatments including heart and brain surgery, stent surgery, pacemaker surgery, kidney transplant surgery, thoracic surgery. The recent first successful liver transplant surgery stands as a historical milestone of the corps. Due to those undertakings, Tatmadaw now has no unreachable place and it can almost cure any kind of disease in its healthcare services, the Senior General said.
