Yangon Children Hospital

Yangon’s Children’s Hospital, the largest children’s hospital in Myanmar, has a capacity of 1,000 beds, and is the major pediatric referral center for the country. It consists of an emergency department, inpatient wards, a 14-bed ICU, and space for outpatient visits (these often take place in the wards). Subspecialty services include neurology, nephrology (dialysis), cardiology, hematology-oncology, and pediatric surgery. In the recent past, there could be as many as 200 admissions in a 24-hour period, but this has decreased somewhat with the opening of two other pediatric hospitals in the area. The hospital is staffed by faculty and residents (mostly general pediatricians) during the day and residents at night. Medical students and residents read English medical texts and present cases in English, though discussions are often in Burmese. Fluency and comprehension of English are variable among the residents and faculty, but they are accustomed to some instruction in English.