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HISTORY

Established in 1938 , the hospital served as the principal hospital for the British in the Far East and was known as the British Military Hospital. After World War II to the 1970s , Alexandra Hospital remained as one of the most modern hospitals in Singapore right to the 1970s.

In its heyday, Alexandra Hospital was an institution that adopted cutting-edge medical technology and was the first hospital in Southeast Asia to successfully perform limb re-attachment to a patient. Alexandra Hospital possessed several well-known medical expertise. These include:
  • Sir Roy Calne , an international renowned transplant surgeon

  • Major A.P. Dignan , a world famous transplant surgeon and professor of Surgery in the University of Cambridge, Clinical School

  • Sir Weatherakk , Regius professor of medicine and Honorary Director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine at University Of Oxford


The hospital was handed over to the Government Of Singapore in 1971 and remained as Alexandra Hospital. On 1 October 2000 , the hospital became a member of the National Healthcare Group when it underwent major upgrading of its facilities.


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