Military hospital

Catholic service in Austrian military hospital during World War I.

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
• BMH Rinteln, Germany - closed and now home to charity organization (Lebenshilfe)
• BMH Iserlohn, Germany - closed 1990s
• BMH Wegberg, Germany
• BMH Hostert
• BMH Münster
• 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, Woolwich
• Stoke Military Hospital, Devonport
• 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

• King Hussein Medical Center, Amman - Jordan
• BMH Nairobi
• BMH Gibraltar
• BMH Malta

Gallery

Pictures of Israeli military hospital in 1948.

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See also

• Field hospital
• Military Health System
• Royal Naval Hospital