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Mr Yeo, 60, has been hospitalised with lymphoma, a cancer of a type of white blood cell. The consultant therapist with the Counselling and Care Centre pioneered formal training for counsellors here. -- ST FILE PHOTO
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->VETERAN counsellor Anthony Yeo, 60, has been hospitalised with lymphoma, a cancer of a type of white blood cell that fights off infections in the body.
News of his illness was announced on Thursday on the website of the Counselling and Care Centre, where he is a consultant therapist.
The centre said it was unable to give more details on his condition, and his family has declined comment.
An announcement on the centre's website said Mr Yeo, often referred to as the 'Father of Counselling' in Singapore, is not ready for visitors and would prefer to spend time with his family.
Those who would like to convey their get-well wishes may send their cards to the Counselling and Care Centre in Hong Lim Complex.
Mr Yeo joined the centre fresh out of university in 1972, and rose to become its first local director in 1980. He was only 32 then.
He pioneered formal training for counsellors here and has trained close to 1,000 counsellors.
An energetic speaker, he has always advocated paid sabbaticals for those in his profession and proper professional recognition in the form of licensing and registering of social workers.
Lymphoma is also what struck both Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and the late president Ong Teng Cheong in 1992. Mr Ong died in 2002 at the age of 66.
MELISSA SIM
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Mr Yeo, 60, has been hospitalised with lymphoma, a cancer of a type of white blood cell. The consultant therapist with the Counselling and Care Centre pioneered formal training for counsellors here. -- ST FILE PHOTO
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->VETERAN counsellor Anthony Yeo, 60, has been hospitalised with lymphoma, a cancer of a type of white blood cell that fights off infections in the body.
News of his illness was announced on Thursday on the website of the Counselling and Care Centre, where he is a consultant therapist.
The centre said it was unable to give more details on his condition, and his family has declined comment.
An announcement on the centre's website said Mr Yeo, often referred to as the 'Father of Counselling' in Singapore, is not ready for visitors and would prefer to spend time with his family.
Those who would like to convey their get-well wishes may send their cards to the Counselling and Care Centre in Hong Lim Complex.
Mr Yeo joined the centre fresh out of university in 1972, and rose to become its first local director in 1980. He was only 32 then.
He pioneered formal training for counsellors here and has trained close to 1,000 counsellors.
An energetic speaker, he has always advocated paid sabbaticals for those in his profession and proper professional recognition in the form of licensing and registering of social workers.
Lymphoma is also what struck both Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and the late president Ong Teng Cheong in 1992. Mr Ong died in 2002 at the age of 66.
MELISSA SIM
