South Okkalapa Maternal and Child Hospital


The South Okkalapa Maternal and Child Hospital is a 150-bedded specialist public hospital in South Okkalapa Township of Yangon. Colonel Tun Sein laid foundation for the hospital on 18 February 1960 and U Nu, the first Prime Minister of Myanmar, officially opened it as a Catholic Missionary Hospital on 1 May 1961. It became a 100-bedded specialist hospital for women and children on 12 July 1965 and then was upgraded to a 150-bedded Maternal and Children Hospital on 19 August 1987.
It is also a teaching hospital affiliated with University of Medicine 2, Yangon.

Catchment areas

The hospital is providing services for the following townships.