16.04.2025 – (12:01 PM)

In providing treatment, we received the support and guidance of the regional government and systematically cooperated with each other. When we did so, the Indian medical team was based at the old Chan Myat Thashi Airport, the Russian medical team was based at the Sri Mandalar Football Stadium with the Belarusian medical team. The Singaporean medical team was based at the Bahut Stadium, the Japanese (JICA) medical team was based in the city government office, and so on. When international medical teams provided treatment, the regional government, our hospital management team, their medical teams met and coordinated treatment, and we sent teams of doctors and nurses from us to the international medical teams and cooperated. Some of their medical teams systematically transferred and received patients to our hospitals for treatment. In addition, the Indian medical team had a surgical room, and they performed surgeries on the parts they could perform. The Russian orthopedic surgeons also came to our operating room to perform surgeries with our orthopedic surgeons. Due to the situation and the time, the mental health care team has not been closed yet. We will continue to provide treatment to the patients who need it.

Q. . Mandalay General Hospital is the most reliable hospital in Upper Myanmar. Can you tell us about the situation of the damaged hospital buildings, the patients who are already coming from the surrounding areas, the earthquake victims, and the patients who will come from the upper areas during the Thingyan period?

A. . There are 33 large and small buildings in our hospital complex. Not all of the buildings were damaged. The one-story, two-story, and three-story buildings are still in a state of being usable again. Some of the buildings are still intact and undamaged. As for the high-rise buildings, the Minister of Natural Resources and the relevant engineers have been working together to inspect the damaged buildings in accordance with the regional government plan. There are some buildings that have been restored. Some buildings have been repaired and are ready for use after waiting for a while. This is a situation where some of them cannot be reused. At this time, aftershocks are occurring, so temporary treatment facilities have been set up. Two temporary emergency treatment centers, a laboratory, and a radiology center have been set up. Outpatients who can be treated at home are being treated and discharged. The injured are being treated safely with more than a hundred beds. In the emergency tent, which is fully equipped with water, electricity, air conditioning, and twenty-seven beds, patients who will undergo surgery are being treated. In the third-story building, neurosurgery patients are being treated well with about seven beds. In the parking lot, there are covered and air-conditioned stone-covered dormitories for general surgery. In front of the ninth-story building, the emergency dormitory donated by the Ayeyarwady Foundation has been temporarily prepared to treat critical patients with 38 beds.