Ministry of Health (Myanmar)

{{Short description|Government ministry of Myanmar}}

{{EngvarB|date=November 2015}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2015}}

{{Infobox government agency

|agency_name = Ministry of Health (Myanmar)

|nativename = {{lang|my|ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန}}

|seal = File:Ministry of Health, Burma.svg

|formed =

• {{start date and age|1947|df=y}}
• {{start date and age|2021|8|1|df=y}}

|preceding1 = Health Department

|jurisdiction = {{MYA}}

|employees =

|budget = USD$ 18 million (2003){{cite journal|pmc=1592343 | pmid=17032061 | doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0030393 | volume=3 | issue=10 | title=Responding to AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and emerging infectious diseases in Burma: dilemmas of policy and practice |date=October 2006 |vauthors=Beyrer C, Suwanvanichkij V, Mullany LC, etal | journal=PLOS Med. | pages=e393 | doi-access=free }}

|headquarters = Office No (4), Naypyidaw

|minister1_name = Dr Thet Khaing Win

|child1_agency = Department of Public Health

|child2_agency = Department of Medical Services

|child3_agency = Department of Health Professional Resources Development and Management

|child4_agency = Department of Traditional Medicine

|child5_agency = Department of Medical Research

|child6_agency = Department of Food and Drug Administration

|website = {{url|http://www.mohs.gov.mm}}

|footnotes =

||logo=|chief1_name=|chief1_position=|chief2_name=|chief2_position=|chief3_name=|chief3_position=|chief4_name=|chief4_position=|chief5_name=|chief5_position=|chief6_name=|chief6_position=|chief7_name=|chief7_position=|chief8_name=|chief8_position=|chief9_name=|chief9_position=|parent_department=|child7_agency=|superseding1=Ministry of Health and Sports (Myanmar)|dissolved={{end date and age|2016|5|25|df=y}}}}

The Ministry of Health ({{langx|my|ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန}}, {{IPA|my|tɕáɰ̃màjé wʊ̀ɰ̃dʑí tʰàna̰}}; abbreviated MOH) is a national government-run ministry administering health affairs and health care in Myanmar, including all of the medical schools. In 2016, President Htin Kyaw dissolved the Ministry of Sports (Myanmar) and organized it under the Ministry of Health.

On 25 May 2016, it was renamed to Ministry of Health and Sports (Myanmar).{{cite web |title=Two ministries renamed |url=http://www.president-office.gov.mm/en/?q=briefing-room/news/2016/05/26/id-6347 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161129021129/http://www.president-office.gov.mm/en/?q=briefing-room/news/2016/05/26/id-6347 |archive-date=November 29, 2016 |url-status=dead}}

On 1 August 2021, the SAC reconstituted the Ministry of Health and Sports as Ministry of Health and Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs.{{cite news|url=https://www.burmalibrary.org/sites/burmalibrary.org/files/obl/GNLM2021-08-02-red.pdf|title=Order No 151/2021, State Administration Council, Republic of the Union of Myanmar|newspaper=The Global New Light of Myanmar|agency=MNA|page=6|date=2 August 2021|accessdate=2 August 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://news-eleven.com/article/212807|title=စစ်ကိုင်း၊ တနင်္သာရီနှင့် ဧရာဝတီ တိုင်းဒေသကြီး စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ ဥက္ကဋ္ဌများအား တာဝန်မှ အနားယူခွင့်ပြုခဲ့ပြီး ပြည်ထောင်စု ဝန်ကြီးဌာနအချို့ကို ပြင်ဆင်ဖွဲ့စည်း|website=Eleven Media Group Co., Ltd}}