3 April 2007
TTSH Profiled in WHO’s World Health Day Celebrations

The World Health Organisation will celebrate World Health Day on 7 April with a theme on International Health Security. Topics to be profiled include emerging infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, environmental change and the danger of bioterrorism. In it’s website, the WHO, for the second time pays tribute to Singapore’s battle with SARS in a pictorial feature that traces the steps taken by Tan Tock Seng Hospital in combating the virus. The feature can be assessed by the following link:  http://www.wpro.who.int/sites/whd/heroes/singapore/

In 2004, Tan Tock Seng Hospital was visited by the then WHO director-general, the late Dr Lee Jong-Wook.