The Ministry of Health ( my, ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန, ; abbreviated MOH) is a national government-run ministry administering health affairs and

health care Health care or healthcare is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health profes ...

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 Wells explai ...

, including all of the medical schools. In 2016, President Htin Kyaw dissolved the Ministry of Sports (Myanmar) and organized it under the Ministry of Health. On 25 May 2016, it was renamed to Ministry of Health and Sports (Myanmar). On 1 August 2021, the SAC reconstituted the Ministry of Health and Sports as Ministry of Health and Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs.

Departments

The Ministry of Health is divided into departments, each headed by a Director-General. * Department of Public Health * Department of Medical Services * Department of Health Professional Resources Development and Management * Department of Medical Research * Department of Traditional Medicine * Department of Food and Drug Administration * Department of Sports and Physical Education Department of Health Professional Resources Development and Management is controlling body of following universities in 2014. *

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. ( ...

* University of Medicine 2, Yangon *

University of Medicine, Mandalay The University of Medicine, Mandalay ( my, ဆေးတက္ကသိုလ် (မန္တလေး), ; formerly Institute of Medicine, Mandalay), located in Mandalay is one of five medical universities in Myanmar. The university offers Bachelo ...

* University of Medicine, Magway *

University of Medicine, Taunggyi The University of Medicine, Taunggyi ( my, ဆေးတက္ကသိုလ် (တောင်ကြီး), ) located in Taunggyi, Shan State is one of the universities of medicine in Myanmar. Founded in 2015, the university offers an M.B., ...

* University of Dental Medicine, Yangon * University of Dental Medicine, Mandalay * University of Public Health, Yangon * University of Community Health, Magway * University of Nursing, Yangon *

University of Nursing, Mandalay The University of Nursing, Mandalay (also the Institute of Nursing, Mandalay; my, သူနာပြု တက္ကသိုလ် (မန္တလေး), ) is a university of nursing, located in Mandalay, Myanmar. It is one of three universit ...

* University of Medical Technology, Yangon * University of Medical Technology, Mandalay * University of Pharmacy, Yangon *

University of Pharmacy, Mandalay The University of Pharmacy, Mandalay ( my, ဆေးဝါး တက္ကသိုလ် (မန္တလေး), ), located in Mandalay, is one of two pharmacy schools in Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . ...

* University of Traditional Medicine,Mandalay

List of heads

Pre–Independence

* Hla Min (1943–45) * Ba Gyan (1945–47)

AFPFL Government

* Aung Zan Wai * Khin Maung Lat * Sein Ban, Dr * Ba Saw * Hla Min

Caretaker Government

* Tun Tin (1958–60)

Pyidaungsu Party Government

* Sultan Mahmud (1960–62)

Revolutionary Council Government

* Than Pe, Commodore (1962) * Hla Han, Col. (1964–74)

Burma Socialist Programme Party The Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP), ; abbreviated , was Burma's ruling party from 1962 to 1988 and sole legal party from 1964 to 1988. Party chairman Ne Win overthrew the country's democratically elected government in a coup d'éta ...
Government

* Hla Han, Col. (1974) * Kyi Maung (1974–78) * Win Maung (1978–81) * Tun Wai (1981–88)

State Law and Order Restoration Council Government

* Pe Thein, Col. (1988–93) * Than Nyunt, Vice-Adm. (1993–96) * Saw Tun (1996–97)

State Peace and Development Council The State Peace and Development Council ( my, နိုင်ငံတော် အေးချမ်းသာယာရေး နှင့် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေး ကောင်စီ ; abbreviated SPDC or , ) was the offi ...
Government

* Kat Sein, Maj-Gen. (November 1997–November 2003) * Kyaw Myint, Dr. (November 2003–March 2011)

Thein Sein Thein Sein ( my, သိန်းစိန်; IPA: ; born 20 April 1944) is a Burmese politician and retired general in the Myanmar Army who served as the eighth President of Myanmar from 2011 to 2016. He previously served as Prime Minister ...
's Government

* Pe Thet Khin, Dr. (March 2011 – July 2014) * Than Aung, Dr. (August 2014 – 30 March 2016)

Htin Kyaw Htin Kyaw ( my, ထင်ကျော်, or ; born 20 July 1946) is a Burmese politician, writer and scholar who served as the ninth president of Myanmar from 30 March 2016 to 21 March 2018. He was the first elected president to hold the off ...
's Government

* Myint Htwe, Dr. (30 March 2016 - 2018)

Win Myint Win Myint ( ; born 8 November 1951) is a Burmese politician who served as the tenth president of Myanmar from 2018 to 2021. He was removed from office in the 2021 Burmese coup d'état. He was the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Myan ...
's Government

* Myint Htwe, Dr. (2018- 1 February 2021)

Min Aung Hlaing Min Aung Hlaing ( my, မင်းအောင်လှိုင် abbreviated: MAL ; born 3 July 1956) also known as Alaungsithu is a Burmese politician and army general who has ruled Myanmar as the chairman of the State Administration Coun ...
Military 's Government

* Thet Khaing Win- Dr. (1 February 2021 – present)

References

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Medical and health organisations based in Myanmar

Ministries established in 1947 1974 establishments in Burma

Departments

List of heads

Pre–Independence

AFPFL Government

Caretaker Government

Pyidaungsu Party Government

Revolutionary Council Government

Burma Socialist Programme Party The Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP), ; abbreviated , was Burma's ruling party from 1962 to 1988 and sole legal party from 1964 to 1988. Party chairman Ne Win overthrew the country's democratically elected government in a coup d'éta ... Government

State Law and Order Restoration Council Government

State Peace and Development Council The State Peace and Development Council ( my, နိုင်ငံတော် အေးချမ်းသာယာရေး နှင့် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေး ကောင်စီ ; abbreviated SPDC or , ) was the offi ... Government

Thein Sein Thein Sein ( my, သိန်းစိန်; IPA: ; born 20 April 1944) is a Burmese politician and retired general in the Myanmar Army who served as the eighth President of Myanmar from 2011 to 2016. He previously served as Prime Minister ... 's Government

Htin Kyaw Htin Kyaw ( my, ထင်ကျော်, or ; born 20 July 1946) is a Burmese politician, writer and scholar who served as the ninth president of Myanmar from 30 March 2016 to 21 March 2018. He was the first elected president to hold the off ... 's Government

Win Myint Win Myint ( ; born 8 November 1951) is a Burmese politician who served as the tenth president of Myanmar from 2018 to 2021. He was removed from office in the 2021 Burmese coup d'état. He was the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Myan ... 's Government

Min Aung Hlaing Min Aung Hlaing ( my, မင်းအောင်လှိုင် abbreviated: MAL ; born 3 July 1956) also known as Alaungsithu is a Burmese politician and army general who has ruled Myanmar as the chairman of the State Administration Coun ... Military 's Government