Passing-out Parade of 21st Intake and 8th Intake (Female) of Military Institute of Nursing and Paramedical Sciences held, honorary dinner hosted
Nay Pyi Taw December 26
The Passing-out Parade of the 21st Intake and the 8th 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 Thadoe Maha Thray Sithu Thadoe Thiri Thudhamma Min Aung Hlaing, Vice Chairman of SAC Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior General Thiri Pyanchi Maha Thray Sithu Soe Win delivered an address.
Also present together with the Vice-Senior General were wife Daw Than Than Nwe, union ministers and wives, senior military officers from the Office of the Commander-in-Chief and wives, 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 bearer troops and graduate trainee companies. Then, the graduate trainee companies saluted the Vice-Senior General through slow-march past and quick-march past.
Afterwards, the Vice-Senior General presented Best Trainee Award to Trainee Nan New Nwe Aye, Excellent Award in Training to Trainee Thiri Pawa and Excellent Award in Studies to Trainee Ei Mon Kyaw of the 8th Intake of the institute.
In his address, the Vice-Senior General said today, a new defence force joined the State and Tatmadaw. During the courses the trainees had been trained to be skilled in military and medical science in accord with the motto of MINP “courage, knowledge and skill.” The MINP had so far produced Ph.D (Nursing), M.N.Sc, M.Pharm, M.Med Tech, Dip in M.Ed, B.N.Sc, B.Pharm, B.Med Tech, making a total 5424 as skilled military medication aides. Alumni are now serving their duties well at the assigned places.
As for the progress of national healthcare services, qualification of health staff including doctors, nurses, pharmacists and medical professionals should meet the required standard.
Apart from doctors, nurses, pharmacists and medical technicians are also the important force of the healthcare services.
Hence, the MINP is teaching its trainees the ever advancing medical sciences in accord with the international standard.
The institute is always studying the curriculum and teaching techniques of local and foreign universities and wrote its new curriculum in 2016 in accord with the Myanmar Nurse and Midwife Council. The new curriculum was approved in accord with the set standards in 2020, and was launched in academic year 2020-2021. Hence, today, MINP produced the first batch of trainees who had completed the new curriculum.
Nursing and medical support is the main duty of the medical corps, and it helps enhance the defence power of Tatmadaw in a way. The nursing staffs have to provide every patient with necessary care and treatment in accord with the instructions.
They must also maintain and protect the medical equipment and machines for long-term use.
In the practical field, nurses need to apply treatment methods and medical equipment with skill and special care in accord with their trained qualifications. They must also get in touch with ever advancing nursing techniques and medical equipment.
Forging the spirit of nursing is of great importance for a basic good nurse. If they have basic nursing spirit such as mercy, consideration, honesty and sacrifice, they can dutifully serve their assignments in any places. Behaviors of a good nurse can reduce a half of sufferings of patient. So, nurses have to follow nursing ethics on friendly relations, helping, honesty, patience, politeness and compassion. As nursing service is the most basic and important for the health sector, they all have to carefully serve their duties in line with the nursing ethics and spirit aligned with the theme of the Medical Corps “goodwill, compassion
and prevention of disease”.
Pharmacy and medical technological trainees also have to thoroughly apply the knowledge and techniques given by the institute in serving their duties at relevant hospitals and units.
Being pharmacists, they have to study parts of herbal plants for the sake of the health of humans. They have to seek the best potent and therapies of physical and chemical properties of herbal plants. In so doing, they have to understand handling of the medical equipment with skillfulness. Pharmacists are to serve duties of preserve medicines and provide them to patients without damage.
They need to try hard to become skillful persons in western medical science as well as traditional medical science by raising health awareness to Tatmadaw families and people and providing medical treatments to them. Moreover, they must be skillful in systematically using the medicines and related equipment. In this regard, these medicines and they must use traditional medicines and modern medical science properly depending on time and location.
If so, they can implement the theme of the Medical Corps to be healthy, fit and to fight and they can be recorded as good medical service personnel who can serve missions of the corps at full capacity.
Laboratory technicians, radiographers and physiotherapists have to continuously study correct and effective examination techniques for patients in relevant subjects to provide proper health care services to patients.
Moreover, they have to conduct researches on relevant subjects to be able to provide comprehensive treatments to the patients in cooperation with other medical departments for the sake of the patients. In their assigned areas, they have to give medical services to Tatmadaw members and families as well as the people.
In so doing, they, being good members of Medical Corps need to study advancement of modern medical techniques and serve treatment, disease prevention and health promotion as well as rehabilitation of patients with goodwill without discrimination.
It can be seen that members of Medical Corps had participated in independence struggle with excellent performances and during the period from the post-independence era to date with serving the state duties in respective sector. They participated in giving health care services to the Tatmadaw members, families and people not only in ordinary time but in time of disasters. They provide healthcare services to the people at military hospitals and medical battalions. Moreover, they made utmost efforts in medical treatment for the people in mobile medical services after 2010. Not only mobile special medical teams but local medical teams of relevant military commands are giving healthcare to the local people.
The primary duty of medical services is a process of saving life of other in time. So, it is a career for them to have the great noble merit. With regard patients, all members of Medical Corps have to give medical treatments to the patients in line with the ethics, visions and duties, showing their excellent members of Medical Corps and fine traditions of the Tatmadaw.
Hence, those service personnel have to follow their oaths of nursing and try to be good nurses of the Tatmadaw uplifting the prestige and traditions of the Tatmadaw.
The State Administration Council during the period of serving the State responsibilities is placing an emphasis on peace and stability of the state, socioeconomic development, forging endurable peace for the whole nation, and building the Union based on democratic system and federalism. In so doing, the government is implementing the two political visions: strengthening disciplined genuine multi-party democratic system and building the Union based on democratic system and federalism. To do so, all ethnics do not have to disintegrate among them in the country and give a help hand to each other in order to emerge a Union based on democratic system and federalism with Union spirit. As ours is a country that is established under the union system in its nature, national unity is essential and vitalization of the union spirit is of utmost importance and necessity for unity among national races.
As the Tatmadaw is a part of the state, Tatmadaw personnel are a part of the people. As the strength of the country lies within, the union must be safeguard based on united strength of the people. In doing so, our three main national causes such as non-disintegration of the union, non-disintegration of national solidarity and perpetuation of sovereignty must be safeguard with union spirit in line with historical lessons. For no disintegration of the union, ideologies, perceptions, beliefs and convictions of the entire people must be based on the union spirit. Therefore, it is necessary for all to mobilize the people for vitalization of the union spirit and national unity in respective areas where you are assigned duties.
The lifeline of the Tatmadaw is discipline. As Tatmadaw personnel are those who live under the command of the Tatmadaw, in which orders and discipline are main pillars, it is necessary for all to respect and observe orders and instructions issued.
Moreover, Tatmadaw personnel are required to strictly follow military code of conduct in the same way as sarongs are worn tightly. Only then, will one be outstanding personnel who is disciplined and ethical and will the Tatmadaw be a disciplined army which can be relied upon by the people.
Moreover, as you have led the life of a Tatmadaw personnel of your own volition, you are required to perform any duty you are assigned to responsibly through thick and thin based on sympathy out of camaraderie, which means affection, attachment and loyalty among personnel.
You are required to comply with military and civilian laws and medical and ethical codes as personnel of the medical corps.
To be outstanding personnel, the most important thing for each personnel is to undergo training to enhance three capabilities such as military capability, administrative capability and organizational capabilities.
Therefore, you will be outstanding nursing and medical professional personnel who can be relied upon by the country and the Tatmadaw if you meet three capabilities and five fundamental qualities and abide by nine nurses’ pledges.
In conclusion, the Vice-Senior General urged all to try to be good nurses who are equipped with high morale and good discipline and can enhance the image of medical corps and preserve the traditions of the Tatmadaw, to be personnel who meet standards of ethics, abilities and nursing spirit of good nurses by bearing in mind the motto "Benevolence, Kindness, Safety," to continue to study developments of modern nursing and medical science without losing sight to be competent nurses and medical professionals and to mobilize the people of national race with emphasis on vitalization the union spirit and national unity when you meet them in respective areas where you are assigned duties.
Then, the Vice - Senior took the salute of the graduating companies and left the parade ground. After the parade, the Vice-Senior General met with outstanding trainees and gave an honorary speech at the parlor of the institute.
In the evening, the Vice-Senior General and party attended the graduation dinner of the 21st Intake of Defence Services Institute of Nursing and Paramedical Sciences and 8th Intake (Female) of Nursing and Paramedical Sciences and enjoyed dinner together with graduating nurses and guests.
After the dinner, the Vice-Senior General and party enjoyed the music of the band of the institute and presented cash rewards.
Then, the Vice Senior General and party enjoyed the entertainment programs of the Myawady Entertainment Troupe under the Directorate of Public Relations and Psychological Warfare together with graduating nurses at the Thabin Hall of the institute.