British Military Hospital, Singapore
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The British Military Hospital, Singapore (now Alexandra Hospital)[1] was the primary military hospital for the British Far East Command and site of a massacre in February 1942 by the Japanese troops during the Fall of Singapore.[2]
British Military Hospital, Singapore | |
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Geography | |
Location | Singapore |
Coordinates | 1.286824°N 103.801232°E / 1.286824; 103.801232 |
Organisation | |
Type | Military hospital |
Affiliated university | National University of Singapore |
History | |
Opened | July 1940; 84 years ago (1940-07) |
Established in 1938 and officially opened in July 1940,[3] the facility was located four miles west of Singapore at 378 Alexandra Road, and known as Alexandra Hospital for the nearby park of the same name.[4] After years of planning, the 356-bed hospital opened with some of the best medical facilities in Asia, including then-groundbreaking X-ray equipment.
Six years after Singapore's 1965 independence, with the British military withdrawing from the country, the hospital was handed over to the Singaporean Ministry of Health on 11 September 1971 and officially reopened four days later as Alexandra Road General Hospital.[5] At its the height, the hospital adopted cutting-edge medical technology and in 1975 was the first in South East Asia to successfully reattach a patient's limb.[6]
Today, Alexandra Hospital is part of the National University of Singapore Medical School.[7]