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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]
In June 1981, most of the building's facilities were moved to either the Lower Block, which by then had been renamed the Norris Block, or the new Singapore General Hospital, which was officially opened in September. [1] [3] The Singapore General Hospital Museum was established in the hospital in 2005. [2] [4]
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.
Changi Hospital: Merged with Toa Payoh Hospital to form Changi General Hospital on 15 February 1997. [30] Toa Payoh Hospital: Merged with Changi Hospital to form Changi General Hospital on 15 February 1997. View Road Hospital: Used to be a subsidiary of Institute of Mental Health (Singapore), but ceased operations in 2001.
Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitors to the hospital.
Using the 6-digit postal code to look up the Central Public Lirbary in the OneMap application. Due to Singapore being a small city-state and most buildings having singular, dedicated delivery points, the postal code can be used as a succinct and precise identifier of buildings in Singapore, akin to a geocode.
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.
[5] Initialisms, in which the individual letters are spelled out. This is by far the most common category in Singapore, including PAP ("People's Action Party") and PIE ("Pan-Island Expressway"), which are pronounced / ˌ p iː ˌ eɪ ˈ p iː / and / ˌ p iː ˌ aɪ ˈ iː / respectively and never */ˈpæp/ and */ˈpaɪ/.