 Although public health care is nominally free, in reality, patients have to pay for some medicine which are not provided by the Ministry of Health.YGH maintains both medical and surgical specialist departments and diagnostic departments.YGH, known for its Victorian-style architecture, with red brick and yellow-painted trimmings, is also the Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital of University of Medicine 1, Yangon, the Yangon Institute of Nursing, and the University of Medical Technology, Yangon.