Chairman of the State Administration Council (SAC) Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Thadoe Maha Thray Sithu Thadoe Thiri Thudhamma Min Aung Hlaing delivered a speech at the Passing-out Parade of the 25th Intake of Defence Services Medical Academy (DSMA) which was held at the parade ground of DSMA in Yangon on 18 December.
Excerpts from a speech delivered by the SAC Chairman Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Thadoe Maha Thray Sithu Thadoe Thiri Thudhamma Min Aung Hlaing are as follows:
- With the aim of “Bringing up physically and intellectually able medical science officers required by the Tatmadaw (Army, Navy and Air Force), Deference Services Medical Academy has been continuously producing military doctors.
- Your efficiency and healthcare services are greatly important duties for health and fitness of all military personnel which is also the basic need for the Tatmadaw to get strengthened. Therefore, your efficiency and healthcare services are indirectly supporting to boost the defence power of the nation.
- In order to promote the competence of every combatant, it is really necessary for them to be fit and healthy physically and mentally. Therefore, by applying your learned medical education, you all must give sufficient healthcare services anywhere and anytime.
- Nowadays, as it is the information technology age, it can clearly be seen that the field of medical science is getting advanced day by day. On one hand, there are modernized treatments and new medical devices coming up and so also on the other hand, strange and peculiar illnesses become great challenges for the medical world. In order to come through these things, you all must keep on doing researches and making new creations in the field of medical science.
- Hence, without losing the sights of advanced technologies and medical science subjects, you all must keep on studying advanced medical subjects by applying the knowledge you learned at DSMA in order to keep abreast with those of international medical scientists.
- Among the nine objectives laid down by the State Administration Council, to implement the second objective from the social objectives which is “Making the whole nation live long, healthy and fit to promote the Health Sector and the Sport Sector applicable to the whole nation”, medical corps together with the Ministry of Health put emphasis on public healthcare sector.
- Hence, I’d like to tell you all to carry out your duties as good military doctors who support the process of upgrading national health sector, besides your original duties of medical corps when you get to your assigned regions.
- Concerning with public health, our Tatmadaw should give all-round aids for the safety of the public daily social life and better healthcare services, as the saying goes, “Nothing is more important than human’s life.”
- You all should comprehend the fact that medical corps giving free of charge healthcare services all over the country, including giving medical cover to the public during natural disasters, means carrying out public welfare services dutifully and safeguarding their lives, in another way, it means accomplishing the mission of national defence dutifully.
- Therefore, I’d like to urge you all to perform successfully for public welfare services with all your proficient medical knowledge when you get to your respective assigned regions.
- And for public long-life health, it is very crucial to have sufficient numbers of well-qualified specialists, doctors and healthcare workers.
- Moreover, as you all are military doctors, where there is a need, you, together with infantry combatants, must perform operation tasks for the national defence and safety. Thus, it is necessary for you to be obedient military leaders by applying military education.
- By applying medical education, you give medical services to your patients with goodwill, noble attitude, adequate kindness and love. And, by applying your learned military education, you must also carry out the operation duty with the strong spirit to sustain “the tradition of Tatmadaw in case by sacrificing your lives”.
Later, all are urged to exhort you to train yourselves to be physically and mentally able medical science officers for the Tatmadaw (Army, Navy and Air Force), the nation and national ethnic groups; to try hard to become skilful medical scientists by doing continuous researches in line with advanced medical science subjects; and to try yourselves to become “a good soldier and an efficient doctor” who are loyal to the nation and the nationalities by upgrading the prestige of DSMA, medical corps and the Tatmadaw.
Source: MWD TV (18-12-2024)
- Your efficiency and healthcare services are greatly important duties for health and fitness of all military personnel which is also the basic need for the Tatmadaw to get strengthened. Therefore, your efficiency and healthcare services are indirectly supporting to boost the defence power of the nation.
- In order to promote the competence of every combatant, it is really necessary for them to be fit and healthy physically and mentally. Therefore, by applying your learned medical education, you all must give sufficient healthcare services anywhere and anytime.
- You all must keep on studying advanced medical subjects in order to keep abreast with those of international medical scientists.
- As you all are military doctors, where there is a need, you, together with infantry combatants, must perform operation tasks for the national defence and safety. Thus, it is necessary for you to be obedient military leaders by applying military education.
- By applying medical education, you give medical services to your patients with goodwill, noble attitude, adequate kindness and love. And, by applying your learned military education, you must also carry out the operation duty with the strong spirit to sustain “the tradition of Tatmadaw in case by sacrificing your lives”.