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SINGAPORE – Former senior minister of state for health and manpower Koh Poh Koon has rejoined Singapore General Hospital (SGH) where he used to practise medicine.<\/p>\n
He told The Straits Times on Sept 30 that he is currently a visiting consultant surgeon with SGH, and will continue on a part-time basis for clinical work.<\/p>\n
The 54-year-old also gave the update in a social media post, saying that as he returned to clinical practice in SGH, he hoped to \u201ccontinue connecting people, ideas and capabilites across the public and private healthcare sectors\u201d.<\/p>\n
He shared that SGH has brought in Singapore\u2019s first Toumai surgical robotic system for clinical evaluation.<\/p>\n
Based on information on the manufacturer\u2019s website, the robotic system is a multi-arm surgical robot that can perform minimally invasive laparoscopic surgeries. It can be used for procedures across urology, general surgery, gynecology, and thoracic surgery.<\/p>\n
Koh will also help the hospital to drive interesting projects such as the robotic system, \u201cto grow capabilities and develop public-private partnerships to strengthen our healthcare ecosystem\u201d.<\/p>\n
Koh, a colorectal surgeon by training, resigned from office on June 1 for family reasons. <\/span><\/a>He said then that he wanted to spend some time with his family and will be returning to healthcare as a surgeon.<\/p>\n Koh has two daughters with his wife, who is also a doctor. He continues serving as an MP for Tampines GRC.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Before entering politics, Koh was the founding director of the colorectal cancer genomic health service at SGH from 2009 to 2013.<\/p>\n He had also assumed the role of director of the colorectal cancer molecular genetics research laboratory at SGH from 2008 to 2013, and was a consultant colorectal surgeon with the hospital.<\/p>\n He later went into private practice before assuming political office.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE – Former senior minister of state for health and manpower Koh Poh Koon has rejoined Singapore General Hospital (SGH) where he used to practise…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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