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South Okkalapa Maternal and Child Hospital

Yangon Region, Myanmar · built 1961

The South Okkalapa Women and Children Hospital (Burmese) is a 150-bedded specialist public hospital in South Okkalapa Township of Yangon. Colonel Tun Sein (B.A Zeyya Kyaw Htin Thiripyin Chi Thu) laid foundation for the hospital on 18 February 1960 and U Nu, the first Prime Minister of Myanmar, officially opened it as a Catholic Missionary Hospital on 1 May 1961. It became a 100-bedded specialist hospital for women and children on 12 July 1965 and then was upgraded to a 150-bedded Women and Children Hospital on 19 August 1987. It is also a teaching hospital affiliated with University of Medicine 2, Yangon.

Hospital data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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