Tan Tock Seng Hospital (Tape 5 of 10)
- National Archives of Singapore Fonds
Fonds/Collection
- 25/02/1999
Record Date
- 01:34:00
Recorded Duration
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1999000808
Accession No.
- Audiovisual
Type
- Hi-8
Format
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Access permitted
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Reproduction
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Synopsis :View of hospital from high storey; focus on roof of Block 204 and surrounding buildings; Respiratory Medicine Sleep Laboratory; doctor relates how this lab is used for patients whose sleep problems have resulted in severe respiratory disabilities; Ward 54 and 55, corridors outside; Nurse Station; staff washing equipment inside Treatment Room. MO's office; filing trays for patient's records, drugs on racks.
Pantry for staff; inside rooms 10 and 11, glimpse of patients; MO's office; corridors outside rooms; shelves of clean linen.
Crossing high-storey walkway to another building; Diabetic Counselling; Ward 26; dilapidated disused room surrounded by metal grills; grilled toilet; staff kitchen; state of bad repair; Level 6, Ward 23, decorated for Chinese New Year; Activity Room for patients includes television and bars for exercises.
Interior of ward's toilets; shower area; wheelchair room; sluice room; shower over bed; portable toilets; Geriatric Medicine Department; corridors outside; Operating Theatre Suite 1; entrance of the suite; patient entering theatre on bed; Ward 42, Ward 52; view outside of old and new multi-storey blocks.
Plaque states that the new ward blocks were opened in 1967 by the 'Honourable Mr A I Braga, the First Minister for Health'; Plaque saying that 'this hospital was removed from its original site to its present buildings in 1868.'
Plaque saying that the 'Tan Tock Seng Hospital for the Sick Poor of All Nations. Built in 1844 by Mr Tan Tock Seng and enlarged by his son Mr Tan Kim Ching. Other wards added in 1879 by Mr Tan Beng Swee'; security station; inside the station; staff working; Diagnostic Imaging and Advanced Imaging Centre; patients waiting; records; registration; patients waiting in 'Fluoroscopy' room; outside entrance to Emergency, at new block; Junction B and C; covered walkways; Walk-In Clinic / Health Screening, Block 206.
Accident and Emergency; patient arriving in ambulance; walk from hospital to Novena MRT Station; path across bridge, view of new hospital building site and surrounding residences; retracing path back to hospital.
