Nay Pyi Taw December 10
The Passing-out Parade of the 26th Intake of Defence Services Medical Academy was held at the parade ground of DSMA in Yangon this morning with an address by Chairman of State Security and Peace Commission Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Thadoe Maha Thray Sithu Thadoe Thiri Thudhamma Min Aung Hlaing.
Also present at the ceremony together with the Senior General were wife Daw Kyu Kyu Hla, Commander-in-Chief (Navy) Admiral Zeya Kyawhtin Htein Win and wife, Commander-in-Chief (Air) General Zeya Kyawhtin Sithu Tun Aung and wife, senior military officers from the Office of the Commander-in-Chief and wives, Union level dignitaries, Union ministers and wives, military command commanders, the DSMA commandant,officials from Mingaladon Station, families and relatives of cadets and guests.
First, the Senior General took the salute of cadet battalions and inspected the cadet company. Then, the cadet companies saluted the Senior General with slow-march past and quick-march past.
The Senior General presented Best Cadet Award to Cadet Aung Kyaw Moe, Excellent Award in Training to Cadet Swan Yee Htal and Excellent Award in Studies to Cadet Min Hpone Thant Aung.
In his graduation ceremony address, the Senior General said DSMA is continuously training and generating medical officer doctors with the aim of bringing about medical expert officers, who have physical and intellectual ability and who are required for Tatmadaw (Army, Navy and Air), and it has reach-ed the 26th Intake. In addition to providing healthcare services for soldiers and their families at the units they are assigned to, the medical officers are also rendering effective healthcare services for local people.
Spiritual and physical health and fitness of every soldier is of vital importance for enhancing combat capability of every individual soldier, as the Tatmadaw has been organizing to become a modern patriotic armed forces having the fighting ability and power. Tatmadawmen will be able to shoulder duties at every time, place and region and under any climate condition only if they are healthy and fit in accord with the motto — Make Fit to Fight. Hence, members of the medical corps must pay special attention to providing Tatmadawmen with medical protection, healthcare and treatment with their skilled profession. They must pursue medical sciences constantly to become brilliant in their profession, and must realize the vision of the medical corps.
Moreover, they must show the true goodwill of the Tatmadaw by taking part in providing healthcare for Union nationalities, apart from military officers, other ranks and families at the units they are posted.
Today is the age of science and technology. In this regard all are witnessing the daily progress of the field of medical science. On one hand, new and changing the rapies and medical equipment are emerging, and on the other, bizarre and mysterious diseases are challenging the medical field. As the graduation officers are military medical experts, they must enhance their individual skills through continuous studies on ever advancing treatment methods and medical sciences of the modern age. In addition to military officers, other ranks and families, the graduating officers must also provide healthcare service for the public with complete goodwill and kindness in accord with the motto goodwill and kindness ensure safety. In doing so, they must distribute medical knowledge, and knowledge on prevention and cure on a broader scale to promote health aware-ness in accord with the saying, “prevention is better than cure. ”DSMA is included in the recognition list of the World Fe-deration for Medical Education (WFME) and provides medical instruction in line with international curricula. To enable it to stand alongside international medical universities, the DSMA is conducting postgraduate courses domestically, while also sending scholars abroad to study and train in modern medical science. Domestically, they also organize medical science conferences, medical symposiums, and workshops, and facilitate the exchange of military health care experience with foreign experts. Additionally, extensive medical research is being carried out in compliance with international standards.
It is necessary to keep abreast of armed forces in the international arena in the professions of treatment and prevention of the medical knowledge. They should not be satisfied with the medical knowledge provided by the DSMA and they continue studies of developing medical education in line with the era to become the outstanding victorious medical practitioner soldiers for the nation and the Tatmadaw.
As human obtains energy from the food, the food security is of the most basic and great importance for all human beings in the entire world. In implementing the comprehensive food security, a country must have sufficient food volume, affordablepriced food and healthy food.
As Tatmadaw members who are responsible for national defence, it is crucial for them to consume sufficient nutritious food to endure physical and mental fatigue. Therefore, medical officers need torecommend Tatmadaw members to consume healthy, nutritious foods with provision of medical expertise. At the same time, medical officers need to actively raise public awareness for health knowledge.
To implement the third point of the four directives set by the National Defence and Security Council—“To put emphasis on enhancing the national education and health sectors for sustainable development of the State” the Defence Services medical corps has been collaborating with the Ministry of Health to focus on enhancing public healthcare. Members of the military medical corps provide healthcare services not only to soldiers and their family members at Tatmadaw hospitals and units, including practical battlefield medical support, but also assist in the healthcare needs of ethnic and local communities across generations, contributing to the well-being of the wider population.
Since 2010, Tatmadaw medical corps units have continuously expanded mobile medical treatment operations. They have personally travelled to provide healthcare services even in remote mountainous areas and border rural regions with difficult access. In regions such as deltaic areas and coastal areas, where communities rely on a single route for waterway, the medical corps has also been able to deliver healthcare services using riverine hospitals (Shwe Puzon) and sea-going hospitals (Thanlwin), ensuring the well-being of local populations.
Tatmadaw medical doctors must enhance their capacity to uphold the spirit of a good soldier and the spirit of a good doctor. To ensure they fully cultivate the spirit of a good soldier, they have been strictly trained to follow the 60 military codes of conduct. Likewise, to develop the spirit of a good doctor, they were trained not only in medical knowledge but also in cultivating proper professional ethics, moral conduct, and attitudes that align with medical practice.
Military doctors, who are trained and produced by Tatmadaw, must provide healthcare without discrimination based on ethnicity, religion, or social status, while strictly adhering to medical ethics. They are expected to uphold the pledge that doctors recite daily, which emphasizes maintaining the moral conduct and honourable traditions of a good person, using skilled medical knowledge to compassionately care for patients’ health, and providing treatment impartially regardless of ethnicity, religion, poverty, or wealth. They are to internalize these principles in their hearts and live in accordance with them, striving to embody the character of a good and ethical practitioner.
On the other hand, as military personnel, they need to personally observe and abide by the 60 Military Codes of Conduct laid down by Tatmadaw and must also guide the troops under their command to adhere to these codes strictly. As military doctors, they’ll also have to per-form operational and security duties for national defence alongside the infantry soldiers. Success on the battlefield can only be achieved through good military discipline and high morale. It’s particularly crucial to be loyal to the State and Tatmadaw, to fulfill the orders and duties assigned by superiors, and to effectively command and train subordinates to be highly obedient. He concluded by urging them to maintain high morale themselves, serve as role models for their subordinates, and observe the ethics of a good physician along with the codes of conduct of a good soldier.
He stated that the military medical officers willingly applied for and were competitively selected to attend the Defence Services Medical Academy (DSMA). He emphasized that since the time they were accepted into DSMA, the State and Tatmadaw invested heavily in time and resources to train and produce them, providing them with international-standard medical education. Therefore, he urged the graduating officers, who are valuable human resources for the State and Tatmadaw, not to let their goals nor the expectations of the State, Tatmadaw, and their families be destroyed by a momentary wrong decision. He encouraged them to uphold high standards of morale, ideology, integrity, discipline, and medical ethics in their practical duties, and build themselves into “TO BE A GOOD SOLDIER AND AN EFFICIENT DOCTOR,” possessing a complete sense of camaraderie.
In building our country into a union based on federal democracy, it is important to not copy the systems of other countries and place the importance of the implementation of democratic and federal democracy aligned with our country. Democracy system means the government system chosen by the government, the essence of which is to carry out tasks in accordance with the will of the majority of the people but it is necessary to respect the will of the minority. Federal democracy means sharing the authorities and rights and it represents integration and harmony. As the election process is the essential process for the survival of the union based on democracy and federalism, the multi-party democracy general election will be held starting from 28 December.
Unlike previous elections, the upcoming election has three different features, the first one being the electoral system. The upcoming election is the combination of in addition to the First Past The Post- FPTP system the PR systems and the mixed member preoperational (MMP) system. Second one is the voting system using the Myanmar Electronic Voting Machines (MEVMs) by pressing a button at voting booths on election days. The third is the pattern of the holding elections and the elections will be held phase by phase based on security and management.
Therefore, battalions and that arrive to their assigned regions are seriously urged to play a role in holding the free and fair elections and allowing all eligible voters to cast their votes.
Everyone graduating officers are urged to continuously try to be physically efficient and capable medical scientists, to emphasize on providing medical protection and healthcare services to Tatmadaw personnel, to train oneself to be Hero Physicians and Victorious Soldiers by studying ever advancing medical science, to be efficient doctors whom can be relied upon by the country and the Tatmadaw by maintaining the traditions of the medical personnel.
After taking the salute from the cadet companies, the Senior General left the parade ceremony.
After the parade ceremony, the Senior General met with the cadets, who won outstanding awards, and their parents at the parlour of the headquarters of the DSMA and spoke words of honour.
In his praise of the outstanding cadets, the Senior General said that it’s a pleasure to honour the award-winners together with their parents. The awards are the result of their uninterrupted efforts throughout the course they exerted with stead-fast perseverance, diligence, and endeavor and vision and goal. As they could maintain the foundation of the efforts to pass the matriculation examination with high marks at the alma mater, they won the outstanding awards. Throughout their life, they must continue to uphold the good foundations to cement their vision and the hopes of their parents. The outstanding alumni of the alma mater are still dutifully serving the duties assigned by the State with constant efforts.
As the world is ceaselessly developing and changing they must try to catch up with the advancing age by constantly reading, applying and sharing.
They must understand and know the immense gratitude they owe to their parents and teachers who had nurtured and taught them from their child-hood life till reaching the alma mater. They must pay back the praiseworthy gratitude they owe to the Tatmadaw and the State that had provided them with valuable intellectual and technological knowledge by observing the codes of conduct of an officer and physician’s codes and exercising self-control to enhance their value to further improve themselves and ensuring dutifulness and faithfulness. They must be the reliable and trustful leaders for their subordinates in serving duties, properly divide the major duties and develop their life through tireless efforts.
