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A military hospital is a hospital owned and operated by the armed forces. 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.
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
Indonesia
- Gatot Soebroto Army Hospital, Jakarta
Jordan
Taiwan
- Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei - Taiwan
- Kaohsiung Armed Forces General Hospital, Kaohsiung - Taiwan
Africa
Ghana
- 37 Military Hospital
- Kumasi Military Hospital
Europe
British military hospitals (BMH)
- Alexandra Royal Military Hospital, Portsdown Hill, Cosham
- Military Hospital, Chatham
- BMH Cowglen Glasgow
- Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot
- Colchester Military Hospital - Colchester Garrison
- Duchess of Kent's Military Hospital - Catterick Garrison
- Duke of Connaught Unit Northern Ireland
- Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, Millbank
- Queen Elizabeth Hospital, London
- Musgrave Park Hospital
- Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley
- Royal Hospital Chelsea
- Royal Hospital Haslar, Gosport
- Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich
- Stoke Military Hospital, Devonport
- Tidworth Military Hospital
- Military Hospital Wheatley - now Wheatley Park School [2]
- Wool Military Hospital - Bovington Camp
Furthermore, during the two world wars several civilian hospitals and county mental asylums were commandeered (or part-commandeered) to serve as military hospitals, as were a number of large houses and other buildings.[3] Foreign military hospitals include:
- BMH Hanover, Germany - closed and mobilized as 32nd Field Hospital to Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War in 1990 [4]
- BMH Rinteln, Germany - closed and now home to charity organization (Lebenshilfe) [5]
- BMH Iserlohn, Germany - closed 1990s [6]
- RAFH Wegberg, Germany
- BMH Hostert, Germany - 1950s/60s [7]
- BMH Münster
- BMH Wuppertal
- BMH Berlin
- BMH Shanghai
- BMH Singapore - now Alexandra Hospital - part of National University Health System
- BMH Nairobi
- BMH Gibraltar
- BMH Malta
Other European hospitals
- Military Medical Academy, Belgrade
Americas
- Belize Hospital
- Central Hospital of the Armed Forces of Uruguay
Gallery
Pictures of Israeli military hospital in 1948.
See also
- Military Health System
- Royal Naval Hospital
References
- ^ "Almanac: Azerbaijan, Republic of • Military Medicine Worldwide". military-medicine.com. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
- ^ "The military hospitals that have closed". The Daily Telegraph. 3 October 2006.
- ^ Chambers, Veronika & Fred; Higgins, Rob (2014). Hospitals of London. Stroud, Gloucs.: Amberley Publishing Ltd.
- ^ "BMH Hannover - British Military Hospital Germany". qaranc.co.uk. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
- ^ "BMH Rinteln - British Military Hospital Germany". qaranc.co.uk. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
- ^ "British Military Hospital BMH Iserlohn". qaranc.co.uk. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
- ^ Moore, Simon. "BMH Hostert". BAOR Locations. Retrieved 18 July 2016.