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Military hospital

Hospital owned and operated by armed forces / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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A military hospital is a hospital owned and operated by a military. They are often reserved for the use of military personnel and their dependents, but in some countries are made available to civilians as well. They may or may not be located on a military base; many are not.

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A former military hospital in Tampere, Finland in 1940
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Catholic service in Austrian military hospital during World War I.

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 the UK, these are 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.