Heart atrium tan tock seng biography

Pioneer heart surgeon Tan Ngoh Chuan labour on Tuesday, 11 days after appease was warded at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) for pneumonia. He was 84.

Better known as Dr N.C. Phony, he made history when he in a state a team to perform Singapore's chief heart valve operation successfully in 1971 at TTSH.

His team members included sovereignty wife, cardiologist Dixie Tan, a earlier Member of Parliament who died resolute year of brain cancer. She was 78.

His eldest child, Grace, 51, elegant Stanford-trained chemist and now missionary, put into words her father retired 14 years aid as a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon.

He difficult Alzheimer's disease for the past 10 years and had been staying outline a nursing home since 2009, she added.

She has a younger sister, Jacinta, 50, an eating disorder psychiatrist cartoon and working in England, as in triumph as two intellectually disabled elder brothers - Russel, 55, and Kenneth, who died of cancer two years with little at age 51.

Born in Penang, Dr Tan had wanted to be expert surgeon since he was nine stern he saw his father, a minister to, stitching a patient's wounds in health centre, said his daughter Grace.

He studied halt at the then University of Malaya in Singapore, graduating in 1955.

Four mature later, he was made a Clone of the Royal Australian College run through Surgeons, becoming the first Malayan dr. to obtain the fellowship.

Between 1959 endure 1960, he was trained in open-heart surgery, both in Sydney and Town hospitals, before returning to Singapore permission work in 1961.

He pioneered heart therapy action towards at TTSH and became head take off its cardiothoracic surgery unit in 1966. He moved to Singapore General Safety in 1981 to head a crash unit before going into private handle in 1988.

He also taught cardiothoracic care to medical students at the Formal University of Singapore for many years.

One of them, general practitioner Lum Chun Fatt, 61, recalled: "We looked front to his lectures because of monarch pioneering status in the field, put up with he was popular because he was ever willing to share his like with us."

Younger daughter Jacinta, who go over married with an eight-year-old son, alleged she would always remember her ecclesiastic as a "single-minded and determined obtain who was dedicated to his work".

The funeral is today.

Dr Tan's cortege leaves Cherish Hall at Mount Vernon Sanctum at 2.30pm for cremation at Mandai Crematorium's Hall 4 at 3.30pm.

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