Changi General Hospital (CGH)

03/09/2025

Held our CGH Research, Innovation and Enterprise (RIE) Day 2025 last month – a vibrant showcase of how research and innovation is enhancing patient care and shaping the future of healthcare.

Since its launch, CGH RIE Day has become a key platform for our community to exchange insights, showcase projects and foster collaborations. This year’s event featured inspiring keynote talks, presentations by our early clinician scientist innovators and abstract awardees, as well as a meaningful and dynamic networking session to exchange knowledge and best practices on topics ranging from precision medicine, translational research, and the innovation journey.

Relive the energy and insightful conversations from the day through our highlights video! 📹

31/08/2025

𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝗶𝗿: 𝗥𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻’ 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗨𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗳𝘁 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 ❤

From cheesecakes to crochets, plants and perfumes, the two-day CGH President’s Challenge Charity Fair filled our hospital atrium with a trove of treats, trinkets and treasures for sale to support the 2025 SingHealth President’s Challenge (SHPC) and uplift lives in our community.

CGH senior management rolled up their sleeves and added a special stamp on the cheesecakes for sale, a move that saw the creamy cheesecakes being quickly snapped up.

St Andrew’s Autism Centre, one of this year’s SHPC benefiting organisations, also joined the Charity Fair, putting up handmade items and fresh hydroponically grown vegetables harvested from their urban farm. 🥬

❤ A big thank you to all who pitched in with passion, showing once again that together, we can bring hope and uplift lives! Proceeds raised from the Charity Fair will go towards supporting the programmes of the SHPC benefiting organisations: St Andrew’s Mission Hospital (St Andrew’s Autism Centre), Abilities Beyond Limits and Expectations (ABLE), Centre for Seniors and Filos Community Services.

29/08/2025

🌱 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲: 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 🤖

At the Caring General Hospital, innovation and compassionate care work hand in hand to shape the future of healthcare.

For Azreena Zamree, a Senior Engineer at the CGH Centre for Healthcare Assistive and Robotics Technology (CHART), this means leveraging technology to design and implement solutions that support the care team and enhance the care experience for patients and visitors.

Specialising in healthcare robotics, sensors and user interface design, Azreena works closely with colleagues across Changi General Hospital to co-create solutions where automation can help. One example is the collaboration with the CGH Emergency Department (ED) care team to introduce autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), with an aim to increase efficiency and productivity, and enhance experience for patients and visitors. Named MEDi, EDi and BLANKi, these smart care team members take on heavy medication loads, make repetitive trips to various care areas, and provide wayfinding and blanket delivery services to patients and their families in the ED.

Her role highlights the importance of multi-disciplinary collaboration in healthcare – bringing together engineers, developers, clinicians and operations teams to create smarter, safer and more sustainable systems.

“Technology can never replace the human touch in healthcare. But robotics and other smart solutions can complement and augment our care team, so they can focus on what matters most – providing care for patients,” says Azreena.

Azreena was drawn to healthcare and CGH because of the purpose she finds in helping others, and a personal connection to the hospital. Her late grandfather had worked at old Changi Hospital’s operating theatre and storage facility, and later continued as a porter at CGH, transporting patients, documents and laboratory specimens for almost a decade.

“CGH has been a huge part of my life – my family members, myself included, have received care or visited our loved ones here over the years. Knowing that my grandfather had been a part of this hospital community, and that I am now here, contributing and shaping healthcare through my work, feels like coming full circle. It is very meaningful to me,” she shares.

Azreena and the CHART team are currently working on enhancing the Robotics Middleware for Healthcare (RoMi-H), which enables multiple robots to travel autonomously and safely in tight spaces and access different floors in a multi-storey building to execute their respective tasks in a coordinated manner. The improved middleware will enable the deployment of robots in dense human environments, complete with a unified dashboard that controls the movement and tasks assigned to the robots.

“When I see our smart care team navigate the hospital campus autonomously to deliver items or show patients the way to their care appointment, I know that it’s helping to relieve the workload for our colleagues. It’s a small but meaningful step in supporting patient care, and a deeply rewarding one for me.”

🔗 Read about how Azreena and our CHART colleagues collaborate with our Emergency Department care team to enhance productivity, efficiency and the care experience at the ED: https://www.cgh.com.sg/about-cgh/overview/cgh90thanniversary/care-grows-here/engineering-care-together

26/08/2025

🌟 Changi General Hospital is recruiting Patient Service Associates!

If you have a heart for service and want to support patients on their healthcare journey, join us at the Caring General Hospital! Build a meaningful career in healthcare, while delivering care and comfort to our community.

🔗 Scan the QR code or click here to register your interest by 𝟴 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱: https://for.sg/cgh-recruitment-20sept

📆 Shortlisted candidates will be invited for an interview at CGH on 𝟮𝟬 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱.

19/08/2025

🎳𝗥𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘀 #𝗢𝗻𝗲𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁’𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗕𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘀! 🎳

The first of the SingHealth President’s Challenge (SHPC) 2025 signature sporting events kicked off last weekend with Bowling with the Stars! Led by our Caring General Hospital, close to 100 participants from CGH and other SingHealth institutions gathered for a bowling tournament and a bowling clinic, to strike, score and cheer on fellow team members, all for a good cause.

Lending their star power to the event were National Bowlers Colleen P*e, Joyan Khoo, Ning Tay and Timothy Tham, who shared expert tips, tactics and techniques to triumph on the lanes with participants who signed up for the interactive Bowling Clinic.

Congratulations to the following winners for their slick displays of skill and sportsmanship:
🥇Team KK Women's and Children's Hospital, First Place
🥈Team Changi General Hospital, First Runner-up
🥉Team National Heart Centre Singapore, Second Runner-up
🏆Mohammed Haikal Bin Hamdan from KKH, Top Individual Scorer

A big shoutout to all participants and our National Bowlers for playing a part to bring hope and uplift lives!

Supporting President’s Challenge since 2004, this year’s SHPC theme, “Your Compassion, Their Hope”, reflects how every act of care and kindness can inspire hope and uplift lives. Proceeds raised from the event will go towards supporting programmes run by SingHealth's adopted President's Challenge benefiting organisations: St. Andrew’s Mission Hospital (St. Andrew’s Autism Centre), Abilities Beyond Limitations and Expectations (ABLE), Centre for Seniors and Filos Community Services.

📢Stay tuned for highlights of upcoming events! ⚽

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Singapore General Hospital
Sengkang General Hospital
KK Women's and Children's Hospital
National Cancer Centre Singapore
National Dental Centre Singapore
National Heart Centre Singapore
National Neuroscience Institute
Singapore National Eye Centre
SingHealth Polyclinics
SingHealth Community Hospitals
ALPS

16/08/2025

Every nurse is a 10 to us, including CGH Staff Nurse Farah Dianah.

Like our other nurses, Farah works closely with our multi-disciplinary team to care for our patients. She plays a vital role in infection control, and planning and reviewing treatment plans to aid patients in their recovery. Farah also helps educates patients and their families about managing their condition, and plans the discharge of patients, ensuring they receive continuous and coordinated care from hospital to home. 💙

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13/08/2025

💙 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗲𝘀 ✈️

From flying in the back seat of F-16 jets on missions, to conducting parachute training at night and flying low level over terrain, Dr Robin Low has experienced first-hand the challenges and health considerations faced by those who work in the skies – aspects he now applies in his role as Head and Senior Consultant of the Occupational and Aviation Medicine Service at Changi General Hospital.

At CGH, Dr Low specialises in caring for aviation professionals – pilots, aircrew and air traffic controllers – to reduce the medical risks and support safety during flight.

He also conducts physiology training sessions for pilots and aircrew, working closely with the RSAF aviation medicine team at the Singapore Changi Aeromedical Centre to cover core topics such as hypoxia, spatial disorientation and acceleration forces, which the pilots may experience during their flying career.

💬 “The most meaningful and satisfying aspect of my job is using my medical expertise to help pilots – whether it is something significant like getting them back to flight status or maintaining a certain level of health to be certified to fly, or just helping them to understand their medical condition and alleviating their concerns… Ultimately, we have to ensure the safety and well-being of both pilots and passengers,” shared Dr Low.

🔗 Dr Low shares more about his journey from the cockpit to the clinic in The Straits Times story: https://www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/graphics/2025/08/aviation-doctor/index.html

09/08/2025

🎉 𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝗕𝗶𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗲! 🇸🇬

As we celebrate , Changi General Hospital marks 90 years of caring for our community.

This year’s NDP theme – Majulah Singapura – calls on us to reflect on our shared achievements and look to the future with resilience and optimism.

Hear from our colleagues at the Caring General Hospital as they reflect on what National Day means to them as we continue to forge ahead as 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘳, 𝘐𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘛𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸.

❤️🤍 Majulah Singapura, and Happy National Day from all of us at the Caring General Hospital!

09/08/2025

Congratulations to our CGH recipients of the National Day Awards 2025! 🎉

We are proud of our 118 colleagues who received national honours for their exemplary service and significant contributions to Singapore. 🇸🇬

As CGH marks 90 years of caring for the nation, we celebrate our colleagues who advance care for our patients and the community with their dedication and continual pursuit of excellence.

🏅𝙋𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙘 𝘼𝙙𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙈𝙚𝙙𝙖𝙡 (𝘽𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙯𝙚)
Dr Christopher Lien Tsung Chien
Senior Consultant, Geriatric Medicine

Clin Assoc Prof Tay San San
Head & Senior Consultant, Rehabilitation Medicine

Mr Stephen Chong Yan Foo
Chief Human Resource Officer

Clin Assoc Prof Joan Khoo Joo Ching
Senior Consultant, Endocrinology

🏅𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙈𝙚𝙙𝙖𝙡
Ms Mindy Chiang Hui Xian
Deputy Director, Rehabilitative Disciplines, Allied Health

Mr Oh Hong Choon
Deputy Director, Health Services Research

Ms Erin Lau Yuk Ying
Deputy Director, Medical Human Resource

Ms Tan Poh Choo
Assistant Director (Advanced Practice Nurse), Nursing Administration

🏅𝙀𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙮 𝙈𝙚𝙙𝙖𝙡
16 Recipients

🏅𝙇𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙎𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙈𝙚𝙙𝙖𝙡
94 Recipients

👏 Thank you for doing CGH proud and flying the Singapore flag high!

07/08/2025

𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗚𝟲𝟬 & 𝗖𝗚𝗛𝟵𝟬 𝗮𝘀 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆! 🎉

Honoured to have our Advisers to East Coast GRC GROs, Mr Edwin Tong, Minister for Law and Second Minister for Home Affairs; Mr Dinesh Vasu Dash தினேஷ் வாசு தாஸ் 迪內希, Minister of State, Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth & Ministry of Manpower; Ms Jessica Tan Soon Neo and Ms Hazlina Abdul Halim, as well as SingHealth Group Chief Executive Officer Prof Ng Wai Hoe, join us to celebrate Singapore’s 60th birthday on home ground at the Caring General Hospital this morning.

The National Day Observance Ceremony was especially meaningful as CGH also commemorates our 90th anniversary this year. Featuring lively performances, a video tribute, and a commemorative cake-cutting, the ceremony culminated in the National Anthem and Pledge, reaffirming our shared identity and enduring commitment to care for Singapore.

As we celebrate and our legacy of care since 1935, we forge ahead to help shape a as the trusted care partner, innovating healthcare for tomorrow. 🇸🇬

➡️ 𝗦𝘄𝗶𝗽𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗢𝗯𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘆!

06/08/2025

To spread some joy on home ground, our passionate Food Services team from the Caring General Hospital prepared a curated menu of local delights, made with a healthier twist, for patients to enjoy this National Day.

The commemorative menu includes ayam panggang with kicap sambal, kampung samsui chicken rice, aloo gobhi masala, and a classic black pepper grilled chicken with roasted potato and zucchini.

Tap on our post for highlights of our chefs preparing the dishes behind-the-scenes, and catch them in action in this TikTok video: https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSSQbvMCE/