The first kidney, or renal, transplant in Singapore was successfully performed on 8 July 1970 at the Outram Road General Hospital (later renamed Singapore General Hospital). Doreen Tan, née Khit Siew Gin, who was 29 years old then, received the organ from a 20-year-old ...
The first sex reassignment surgery in Singapore was successfully performed on 30 July 1971 at the Kandang Kerbau Hospital (now known as the KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital). The operation involved a 24-year-old man and was the first procedure of its kind carried ...
Iranian twin sisters, Laleh and Ladan Bijani, were the world’s first adult Siamese twins to undergo surgical separation. The 52-hour marathon operation began on 6 July 2003 at Raffles Hospital in Singapore. However, 29-year-old twins, who were born conjoined at ...
Singapore’s first liver transplant was successfully performed on 25-year-old Surinder Kaur on 29 September 1990. The transplant was performed by a team of four surgeons and two anesthetists from the National University Hospital (NUH). The team was led by Susan ...
On 6 July 1990, a team of doctors at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH), led by Dr Tong Ming Chuan, performed the first heart transplant in Singapore. The donor heart was from Ong Soon, a 41-year-old construction worker, who died in an industrial accident. The ...
On 19 November 2000, Singapore’s first lung transplant operation on 54-year-old Thanvanthri N. Veerappan was performed. The team of lung transplant surgeons included two directors of Singapore’s heart-lung programme, Drs S. Sivathasan and Tong Ming Chuan, as well ...
The Human Organ Transplant Act (HOTA) provides an opt-out organ donation system that allows for the removal of kidneys, livers, hearts and corneas from Singapore citizens and permanent residents who have died, for the sole purpose of transplantation. Administered ...
Jointly owned by Raffles Medical Group and Pidemco Land, Raffles Hospital was officially opened on 16 March 2002 as the second largest private general hospital in Singapore. The hospital has made news for some of its pioneering surgeries on Siamese twins.