Gatot Soebroto Army Hospital

[1] When Louis Bonaparte appointed Daendels as Governor General of the Dutch East Indies in 1807, his main task is to strengthen the defense of Java to protect it from the British Army.

He arrived on Java in 1808 and led the colonial government with a militaristic leadership that he gain the title IJzeren Maarschalk, the "Iron Marshal".

These hospitals were built according to Brugmans' principle: spacious, well-ventilated building, and frequently sanitized facility.

In this hospital in 1896, Eijkman discovered the cause of beriberi, a disease of the peripheral nerves, which won him a Nobel Prize for Medicine.

The military hospital also started the education for the native Javanese doctors, which pioneered the establishment of STOVIA.

The governorship of Indonesia was transferred to Yogyakarta and the Rikugun Byoin was re-managed by KNIL and converted into Militair Geneeskundige Dienst, "Army's Department of Medicine Hospital", more popularly known as Leger Hospitaal Batavia, located in Hospitaal Weg, now Jalan Dr. Abdul Rahman Saleh.

After the Netherlands' recognition of Indonesia's independence on 29 December 1949, one of the Dutch military medical installation called Leger Hospital Batavia was handed over to the Indonesian National Army.

RSTP was under the management of Djawatan Kesehatan Tentara Angkatan Darat ("Army's Department of Health").

The team was initially housed in the guestroom of female dormitory (currently in RSPAD Gatot Soebroto's medical rehab unit), later moved to the 2nd floor department of obstetrics (now used for academy of midwifery).

Therefore, the chairman of the Indonesian Department of Health appointed Doctor Satrio to replace Suselo to prepare the handing over.

The ceremony of the handing over of the Militaire Geneeskundige Dienst (Leger Hospitaal Batavia) occurred on 26 July 1950.

32, former house of surgeon Doctor Borgers (on this location now stands the office of the Indonesian Department of Religion).

In 1957, Gatot Soebroto, at the time served as Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army, built workshop facilities for orthopedics, physiotherapy, basketball court, and a dorm.

A pavilion where Sukarno was treated (1967), delivery room (1968, now demolished and converted into a parking lot), and a childcare facility (1972).

The Weltevreden country house, house of the governor-general of the Dutch East Indies, stands where the hospital now stand. It was demolished in 1820.
Dutch officers in the Groot Militair Hospitaal of Weltevreden.
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