University of Community Health, Magway where access to regular physicians is difficult. First established as Health Assistant’s school in Yangon in 1951. Health Assistant’s school and Aung San Health Demonstration Unit (Field Department) were combined and emerged as School of Health Science for Basic Health Workers in December 1991 Upgraded to University of Community Health in 1996. Moved to Magway in 2000. Field Department was also moved to Tawsaint village, Salin Township in 2006. Nowaday, most of the alumni are work in various department and areas such as NGOs, INGOs, UN, Department of Food and Drug Administration and Department of Public Health of Myanmar Government.
Bago, Myanmar the home district of Yangon, from which the town was detached to make a separate district in 1880. It had an area of , with a population of 48,411 in 1901, showing an increase of 22% in the past decade. Hanthawaddy and Hinthada were the two most densely populated districts in the province. Hanthawaddy, as it was constituted in 1911, consisted of a vast plain stretching up from the sea between the mouth of the Irrawaddy River and the Pegu Range. Except the tract of land lying between the Pegu Range on the east and the Yangon River, the country