The Medical Department's main responsibilities were training Medical Ninjas and researching Medical Ninjutsu. To keep Medical Ninjutsu confidential, routine treatment was generally not performed there. Only patients with severe injuries or unusual conditions were sent to the Medical Department. Under normal circumstances, the injured and sick received treatment at Konoha Hospital—
New recruits trained by the Medical Department all interned at Konoha Hospital to gain experience. Unless they possessed exceptional medical talent and outstanding skills, Healers would not remain in the Medical Department, but would instead be assigned to Konoha Hospital as senior practitioners or administrators.
Put simply, the Medical Department was where elite Medical Ninjas gathered, while ordinary Medical Ninjas worked at Konoha Hospital.
Although Konoha Hospital was newly established and had no precedent to follow, the experience the Medical Ninjas had gained during the First Shinobi World War, along with the systematic approach Kazemori Masaki had proposed, had given it a sound framework. It was still immature, but complete enough that all it needed was gradual expansion.
For the civilians in the Shinobi Village, this was their first encounter with such a novel place. Most had never seen a real Healer. When they fell ill, they could only resort to folk remedies. Those with mild illnesses endured until they recovered. For more serious conditions, people in towns with a Healer had some hope, but those in remote mountain villages could only rely on luck.
Now, however, Konoha Hospital offered medical care far beyond anything they had imagined. Conditions they had once considered incurable were easily treated by the Medical Ninjas, who barely even broke a sweat. These civilians had never seen much of the world, after all, and made a fuss over illnesses that were only moderately serious. Some cases were indeed more troublesome, but Konoha's Medical Department