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Military hospital

A military hospital is a hospital that is reserved for the use of military personnel, their dependents and other authorized users. They may or may not be located on a military base; many are not.

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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 UK 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

Former British military hospitals (BMH) include:

West Germany

  • BMH Hanover, Germany - closed and mobilized as 32nd Field Hospital to Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War in 1990
  • BMH Rinteln, Germany - closed and now home to charity organization (Lebenshilfe)
  • BMH Iserlohn, Germany - closed 1990s
  • BMH Wegberg, Germany
  • BMH Hostert, Germany - 1950s/60s
  • BMH Münster
  • BMH Wuppertal
  • BMH Berlin
  • United Kingdom

  • BMH Cowglen Glasgow
  • Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot
  • Colchester Military Hospital - Colchester Garrison
  • DKMH Catterick - Friarage Hospital
  • Duke of Connaught Unit Northern Ireland
  • Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital, Millbank
  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich
  • Musgrave Park Hospital
  • Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley Netley Hospital
  • 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
  • Cyprus

  • TPMH RAF Akrotiri
  • BMH Dhekelia
  • BMH Nicosia
  • Egypt

  • BMH Alexandria
  • China

  • BMH Shanghai
  • Hong Kong

  • BMH Bowen Road Hong Kong
  • BMH Mount Kellett
  • Others - Asia

  • BMH Singapore - now Alexandra Hospital - part of National University of Singapore Medical School
  • BMH Nepal
  • Americas

  • Belize Hospital
  • Africa-Middle East

  • King Hussein Medical Center, Amman - Jordan
  • BMH Nairobi
  • BMH Gibraltar
  • BMH Malta
  • Pictures of Israeli military hospital in 1948.

    References

    Military hospital Wikipedia