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Singapore General Hospital (SGH) [a] is an academic health science centre and tertiary referral hospital in Singapore.It is located next to the Bukit Merah and Chinatown districts of the Central Region, close to the Outram Community Hospital (OCH), which functions as a supplementary community and rehabilitation hospital to SGH for newly discharged patients. [1]
Bowyer Block, formerly known as the Upper Block, is a historic building which previously served as the main administration building of the Singapore General Hospital. It currently houses the Singapore General Hospital Museum. The building was gazetted as a National Monument in 2009.
Singapore General Hospital. Singapore General Hospital (SGH) is Singapore's first general hospital [1] and also its oldest [1] and largest hospital. [1] It is located along Outram Road, in the heart of a medical hub known as the Outram Campus (comprising several medical institutions including the Health Promotion Board and Health Sciences Authority).
Established in 1994 as the Singapore Heart Centre in the Singapore General Hospital, [12] it was renamed in 1998. The heart centre took over the hospital's cardiac services and set up a cardiology laboratory in 1995. In 2014, the NHCS completed its move to its new purpose-built building within the Singapore General Hospital Outram Campus at 5 ...
The College of Medicine Building (Malay: Bangunan Maktab Perubatan; Chinese: 医药学院大厦) is a historic building in Singapore, located within the grounds of the Singapore General Hospital at Outram Park, within the Bukit Merah Planning Area near Singapore's central business district.
The Bowyer Block at the Singapore General Hospital now houses the SGH Museum which was officially opened in May 2005. Healthcare in Singapore is under the purview of the Ministry of Health of the Government of Singapore.
[9] [10] In 1957, five 6-storey blocks called the New Ward Blocks were added. [11] In the late 1980s, a plan to replace the old wards with a new 15-storey hospital was proposed. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Construction of a S$580-million building at Jalan Tan Tock Seng started in 1993 and was completed in 1998. [ 14 ]
It was the site of Singapore's first medical school to train local students in western medicine. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In September 1904, Tan Jiak Kim led a group of representatives of the Chinese and other non-European communities, and petitioned the Governor of the Straits Settlements , Sir John Anderson , to establish a medical school in Singapore.