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Military hospital

Military hospital

Hospital owned and operated by armed forces

A military hospital is a hospital owned and operated by a military. They are often reserved for the use of military personnel and their dependents, but in some countries are made available to civilians as well. They may or may not be located on a military base; many are not.

A former military hospital in Tampere, Finland in 1940
Catholic service in Austrian military hospital during World War I.

In the United Kingdom and Germany, British military hospitals have been closed; military personnel are usually treated in a special wing of a designated civilian hospital, in the UK, these are referred to as a Ministry of Defence Hospital Unit. Service personnel injured in combat operations are normally treated at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine.

Examples

Asia

Azerbaijan[1]

  • Central Clinical Hospital
  • Baku Military Garrison Hospital
  • Military Hospital of Frontiers
  • Central Customs Hospital
  • Hospital of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
  • Central Military Hospital
  • Military Hospital of the Ministry of National Security
  • Polyclinic of the Army Medical Department of the Ministry of National Security

Bangladesh

China

Indonesia

Jordan

Mongolia

Taiwan

Africa

Kenya

  • Gilgil Regional Military Hospital

Ghana

Egypt

Europe

United Kingdom

Main article: British Military Hospital

Other European hospitals

Americas

Pictures of Israeli military hospital in 1948.

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Military hospitals.

References

  1. [1]
    "Almanac: Azerbaijan, Republic of • Military Medicine Worldwide". military-medicine.com. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
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