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Name change 'sends wrong message'
Ex-MP: Hospitals should be named after lifelong philanthropists or major contributors to nation
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Dr Tan has quit the board of the new hospital in Jurong, in protest against it being named after late tycoon Ng Teng Fong. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE
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FORMER Member of Parliament Tan Cheng Bock has stepped down from the board of the upcoming hospital in Jurong because he disagrees with its new name: the Ng Teng Fong Hospital.
Dr Tan said that while he had nothing against the late property tycoon, whose family donated $125 million to the hospital, this was 'a moral issue' as it looked as if a rich man could pay to have a public institution named after him.
Read the full story in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.
Ex-MP: Hospitals should be named after lifelong philanthropists or major contributors to nation
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FORMER Member of Parliament Tan Cheng Bock has stepped down from the board of the upcoming hospital in Jurong because he disagrees with its new name: the Ng Teng Fong Hospital.
Dr Tan said that while he had nothing against the late property tycoon, whose family donated $125 million to the hospital, this was 'a moral issue' as it looked as if a rich man could pay to have a public institution named after him.
Read the full story in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.