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Mar 30, 2010
New Yishun hospital opens
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The specialist outpatient clinic wing of the newly built Khoo Teck Puat Hospital in Yishun, which opened on Monday. -- ST PHOTO: STEPHANIE YEOW
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NATIONAL serviceman Tan Yan Jie, 20, turned up at the newly built Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH) in Yishun yesterday to have his wisdom tooth extracted.
'My appointment was supposed to have been at Alexandra Hospital, but now that its dental surgery has moved here, I've followed,' he said.
He was among more than 200 patients who had appointments at its 11 outpatient specialist clinics yesterday - some were Yishun residents referred by their doctors, while others had followed the first lot of doctors transferred from Alexandra Hospital (AH). A KTPH spokesman said the first patient arrived at 7.45am for day surgery.
A shuttle bus plying between the hospital and the Yishun bus interchange disgorged its first load of passengers just five minutes before that.
KTPH stationed greeters at strategic points to direct patients to the clinics they needed to go to.
Mr Sokalingam Ramalingam, 52, was cheerful as he went about his job greeting patients and telling them where to go.
Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.
New Yishun hospital opens
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NATIONAL serviceman Tan Yan Jie, 20, turned up at the newly built Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH) in Yishun yesterday to have his wisdom tooth extracted.
'My appointment was supposed to have been at Alexandra Hospital, but now that its dental surgery has moved here, I've followed,' he said.
He was among more than 200 patients who had appointments at its 11 outpatient specialist clinics yesterday - some were Yishun residents referred by their doctors, while others had followed the first lot of doctors transferred from Alexandra Hospital (AH). A KTPH spokesman said the first patient arrived at 7.45am for day surgery.
A shuttle bus plying between the hospital and the Yishun bus interchange disgorged its first load of passengers just five minutes before that.
KTPH stationed greeters at strategic points to direct patients to the clinics they needed to go to.
Mr Sokalingam Ramalingam, 52, was cheerful as he went about his job greeting patients and telling them where to go.
Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.
