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. 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[1]
- BMH Rinteln, Germany - closed and now home to charity organization (Lebenshilfe)[2]
- BMH Iserlohn, Germany - closed 1990s[3]
- BMH Wegberg, Germany
- BMH Hostertdisambiguation needed
- BMH Munster
- 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
- 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
- BMH Nairobi
- BMH Gibraltar
- BMH Malta
Gallery[]
Pictures of Israeli military hospital in 1948.
See also[]
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References[]
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