Passing-out Parade of 20th Intake (Male), 7th Intake (Female) of Military Institute of Nursing and Paramedical Sciences and dinner held
NAY PYI TAW December 29
The Passing-out Parade of the 20th Intake (Male) and the 7th Intake (Female) of Military Institute of Nursing and Paramedical Sciences was held at the parade ground of MINP in Yangon this morning. On behalf of Chairman of State Administration Council Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Maha Thray Sithu Min Aung Hlaing, State Adminstration Council Vice Chairman Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior General Thray Sithu Soe Win delivered an address.
Also present together with the Vice-Senior General were his wife Daw Than Than Nwe, senior military officers from the Office of the Commander-in-Chief and their wives, Union Minister for Health Professor Dr Thet Khaing Win, Union Minister for Construction U Myo Thant, the Yangon Region chief minister, the Yangon Command commander, the MINP commandant, officials of Yangon Station, officer instructors and faculty members of the academic wing and training wing of MINP, who are the guardians of the trainees, and guests.
The Vice-Senior General took the salute of the trainee companies and inspected the flag bearers and the graduate trainee companies. Then the graduate trainee companies saluted the Vice-Senior General with slowmarch past and quick-march past.
The Vice-Senior General presented Best Trainee Award to Trainee Salai Pyae Sone Aung, Excellent Award in Training to Trainee Kyaw Zin Htet and Excellent Award in Studies to Trainee Wai Lin Aung of the 20th Intake.
The Vice-Senior General presented Best Trainee Award to Trainee Phway Thant Zin, Excellent Award in Training to Trainee Hsu Lae Nanda and Excellent Award in Studies to Trainee Yoon Yoon Wai of the 7th Intake.
In giving an address on behalf of the Senior General, the Vice-Senior General said it is a special day that brings new force to the nation and Tatmadaw.
As they are going to serve duties at respective places as members of medical corps, necessary guidance will be given on behalf of the Senior General.
With the aim of “to produce nurses, paramedical and pharmaceutical professionals with physical and intellectual prowess for the national Tatmadaw which safeguards our Three Main National Causes,” the MINP is constantly producing well spirited nurses and paramedical and pharmaceutical professionals. It has trained and brought about male nurses, paramedical and pharmaceutical professionals up to 20th Intake and female nurses, paramedical and pharmaceutical professionals up to 7th Intake.
Nurses, paramedical and pharmaceutical professionals are the essential element of the medical corps. So they are being produced as qualified human resources. The Nursing Training Wing Officer Courses (female) batch number 1 to 16 were conducted from 1959 and onwards, the Bachelor of Nursing Science Officer Training Courses (female) batch number 1 to 4 were conducted from 1996 and onwards. In 2002, the Defence Services Institute of Nursing was opened and trained both male and female trainees for nursing science degrees.
Trainings were also given to nursing science degree holders from civilian universities who joined the military of their own volition, and assigned them as members of the nursing units.
Military medical personnel who have completed undergraduate courses and are qualified are selected and allowed to study master’s degree courses after they have performed medical protection duties at the battlefield for a certain period on completion of undergraduate courses. In addition to master’s degree courses, nursing doctorate courses and X-ray and ultrasonography doctorate courses are being conducted. Moreover, measures are being taken to open more medical science doctorate courses.
As military medical personnel are sent to study doctorate courses, master’s courses and diploma courses at medical universities in 11 foreign countries to keep abreast of other countries by fulfilling the needs for teaching aids, practical labs and instructors according to their extents in respective fiscal year, a total of 137 military medical personnel have completed such courses.
As allowing military medical personnel to study abroad amounts to developing human resources to nurture qualified nurses and medical technicians while efforts are being made to turn the Tatmadw into a modern army that meets international standards, military medical personnel are required to continue studying academic disciplines instilled by the alma mater in the practical field and to share medical and technical knowledge acquired by military medical personnel to others in local multiplier courses.
The establishment of the military medical corps, which is for med with military doctors, nurses and medical technicians and was incepted together with the Myanmar Tatmadaw during the struggle for independence, marked its diamond jubilee on 1 October, 2022. Military medical personnel have shoulder duties in operations and territorial control necessary for internal stability and protection of lives and property of the people by cooperating with other arms and services of the Tatmadaw in successive eras since independence.
Moreover, in accordance with universal health coverage goal of the WHO to provide access to quality healthcare services, a basic need of the mankind, without financial hardship, military hospitals and military medical personnel provide healthcare services to Tatmadaw personnel and their families and medical protection at battlegrounds as well as public healthcare services in successive eras at minimum costs until diseases are cured.
To contribute as much as possible to the efforts of the successive governments to provide sufficient healthcare services to the public, military medical corps have relentlessly accelerated mobile healthcare services. In doing so, medical experts have provided healthcare services in remote mountain regions and rural areas.
In doing so, mobile treatment vehicles are provided together with military medical officers and personnel as well as medicines and medical equipment. Moreover, military medical corps provide healthcare services to residents of delta and coastal areas which can be accessed only through waterways by deploying River Hospital Ship (Shwe Pu Zun) and Sea Hospital Ship (Thanlwin).
In addition, whenever unpredictable natural disasters happen, military medical personnel relentlessly exert rescue efforts at any time and anywhere regardless of race and religion in accordance with the guidance of the Prime Minister Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Maha Thray Sithu Min Aung Hlaing, “Nothing is important than life of human”
Moreover, it can proudly be seen that military medical personnel participated in provision of public healthcare services as necessary without worrying about their lives and the high risk of being infected during the peak of COVID-19 by putting what they learnt in classrooms into practice. Therefore, in providing healthcare services, military medical personnel are required to continue to perform duties responsibly as excellent nursing personnel by always trying to enhance their qualifications in respective academic fields.
Nursing science is one of the important fields in the health sector. Nurses are people who are especially compassionate, kind, devoted, benevolent, noble, persistent and moral. Benevolence and kindness are very effective psychological treatments and can inspire respect and admiration in patients. In provision of healthcare services, nurses play various roles in enhancing health such as health educators, consultants and caregivers and words and deeds of a nurse can inspire mental strength and freshness of patients, contributing to the treatments.
Therefore, good nurses are required to be instilled with five characteristics such as interest, benevolence, kindness, sacrifice and role model. Such fine characteristics have been trained and practiced for four years during the training course. Moreover, nurses are required to always practice mentally to possess humane traits of a good nurse such as bravery, concentration, wisdom, perseverance, enthusiasm and sympathy.
The spirit of nursing refers to physical and mental health recovery of patients. If nurses are instilled with the spirit of nursing, they will be able to perform their duties responsibly at any place and they will become nurses who can be relied upon by personnels and their families.
Moreover, nurses are especially required to abide by nine pledges of nurses consistently.
When officers and other ranks who fought in battles with the spirit of never giving up are injured or ill, they need kindness and sympathy as human beings. Therefore, nurses are required to devote their mind and body to provision of healthcare services by respecting their ethics and dignity.
In the technology age that changes from time to time, military tactics with plans of operation have improved and changed. In the new modern wars, battles are conducted in various operation types by form of proportionality in multiple-war or that of nonproportionality in multiplewar separately or combined.
As today’s world emerges as the form of a global village, every nation could not stay alone and join hands with partners. Moreover, in establishing strategic cooperation between partners having the same self-interest, to gain practical experience, Tatmadaw members are sent to international sports games of armed forces, let to cooperate with military medical corps of ASEAN countries, given chances to get in touch with international military medical academies and international military medical committees constantly. Based on the experience gained, training must be continued to get the Tatmadaw medical staff’s efficiency improved.
Besides, as Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a technology that is coming into the field of medical treatment in the future sooner or later, curricula in medical education are to be changed as needed being compared with international standards in order that Tatmadaw medic and nurse trainees will get acquainted with AI technology.
It is necessary to upgrade and change the curriculum from a curriculum based on knowledge acquisition to the one based on knowledge management and communication to be able to successfully produce medical medics and nurses who are abreast with the times.
The Tatmadaw is part of the nation as well as part of the people. Tatmadaw members are born among the people and they are not urged to join the Tatmadaw. The Tatmadaw is formed with the ones who joined the Tatmadaw on their own accord. As the main duty of the Tatmadaw is to protect the nation,
it has been protecting the nation against all internal and external threats and dangers in successive governments since independence.
Today, to put the nation on the concrete course of multiparty democracy, the State Administration Council has laid down the Five-Point Roadmap, the Nine Objectives and is making utmost efforts to build a Union based on multi-party democracy system and federalism with the aim of ensuring prosperity of the nation and food security that is the national objective. In doing so, it is essential to ensure nationwide stability and peace.
As most of the people have suffered various conflicts that occurred due to various opinions such as political opinions, racial opinions, and religious opinions for 75 years because of ways of divisiveness by the imperialists since the independence, the State Administration Council made an invitation transparently on April 11, 2022 for holding talks on no precondition basis to ensure perpetual peace. The Chairman of SAC himself received leaders of organizations who came to the talks and held the talks on the two points: the state of accepting a multi-party democracy system and that of building a Union based on democracy and federalism. After the talks, the National Solidarity and Peacemaking Negotiation Committee are working on discussion in detail with 10 EAOs accepting the talks on the two points.
Doing so is to end the consequences of the conflicts that the people, who live in the same land and drink the same water, have suffered for 75 years and to ensure that the nation will be developed and modernized and will be a genuine and disciplined democracy nation. It is necessary for all to learn and study the process and event for peace and its history to be able to actively take part in their respective roles regarding the perpetual peace.
It is necessary to firmly build unity inside and outside the army in order that the Tatmadaw could successfully discharge not only the State defense duties but the duties of national politics given by history. It is especially necessary for all Tatmadaw members at different levels and their families to be organized and systematic and united. As today is the age of technology, the act of disintegrating the unity inside the army is being taken with the use of various social media networks and it is necessary to be aware that mainstream media outlets have created and published the Tatmadaw and Tatmadaw members can be seen as bad images in international community too. It is also necessary to precisely follow the issued Rules of Engagement (ROE) and Counter Insurgency Operation (CIO) in the roles concerned.
Moreover, unity inside the army must be built and on the other hand, it is to accelerate organizational measures outside the army. It must be understood that safeguarding lives of the people, providing healthcare services and giving a hand when disasters occur is a practical organizational measure being taken. It is necessary to give special consideration on taking organizational measures for ensuring unity outside the army through following the ethics to deal with the people in order that the Tatmadaw and the people should act as one.
In serving as a good soldier, it is also necessary to cultivate the spirit of the Tatmadaw, such as the spirit of preserving the tradition of the Tatmadaw. To have such a spirit, military discipline is the main backbone to stay strong. Military personnel are the ones who have to observe the military laws as well as the local laws. It is necessary to know and follow the exhortations and strictly follow them your self and your organization. For the development of a country, an ethnic group and an organization, the most basic thing is having good discipline.
If we look at today's modern developed countries, basically, most of the people are disciplined, with good morale and strength. Therefore, from the individual to the organization that we participate in, we must strive to build discipline and strength, and make efforts to help the motherland in the process of modern development as soon as possible.
The rule of loyalty is one of the ten strengths of the Tatmadaw. If you all are full of obedience, strong spirit, and good discipline, it is like being loyal to your regiment, Tatmadaw and the people and the state. Being loy al to the fellow soldiers who are working together till death is more important.
Any action that violates the loyalty of the Tatmadaw and the state must be avoided and opposed. We have to show loyalty by valuing and conspiring to make the great motherland one part, to achieve closeness and love and unity among ethnic brothers and sisters and to develop the nation.
The soldiers who are members of the medical staff must also maintain the good traditions of the Tatmadaw and serve the interests of the State and the citizens with all their strength, and strive to become nurses and medical experts that the Tatmadaw can trust and be proud of.
The Vice-Senior General said he want them to continue training to become nurses, pharmacists and medical technologists, who are full of nursing spirit and full of morals, to adhere to the 9 oaths that nurses must take and practice in providing comprehensive and sufficient health care not only to family members of military personnel but also to the public as a whole, to strengthen the unity of the army after considering the attacks initiated politically, and to preserve the good historical traditions of medical personnel who served till the Diamond Jubilee Medical Corps Day.
After that, the Vice-Senior General received the salute from the graduate trainee companies and left the parade.
After the military parade, the Vice-Senior General met the trainees, who received outstanding awards in the reception hall of the MINP and gave a congratulatory speech.
In the evening, the Vice-Senior General and members attended a dinner ceremony to honor the graduates of 20th Intake (Male) and the 7th Intake (Female) of Military Institute of Nursing and Paramedical Sciences and have a celebratory dinner together with those who attended the dinner.
After the dinner, the Vice-Senior General and members watched the performance of the music band of the MINP and presented cash.
After that, it was reported that the Vice-Senior General and the members, together with the graduate nurses, watched and enjoyed the performance of the Myawady Band under the command of the office of the Directorate of Public Relations and Psychological Warfare at the theater.