LOO Yew Kim 罗有金
Medical Services in Singapore,
Accession Number 003501
- Oral History Centre
Source
- 12
Total Reels
- Jesley Chua Chee Huan
Interviewer
- 10:42:44
Total Running Time
- Mandarin
Language
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Reel/Disc 1 of 12
Metadata
- 9 Apr 2010
Recording Date
- 00:47:55
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
Conditions Governing Access
Synopsis
Foster mother helped foster father with his cleaning job in Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital (KWSH). Interviewee left Johor for Singapore at the age of three. Foster mother came to Singapore to treat her kidney problem. People looked down upon foster father. Bucket system in the past. Free movie screening in KWSH. Incident where interviewee went missing at the age of nine. Elaboration on why foster parents came to Singapore. Foster mother’s character. What foster father taught her. Values she learnt. How foster father was bullied by colleagues in KWSH. Her application for Singapore citizenship. How interviewee found out that she was adopted. Her own mother re-married. How her father passed away. Her foster parents.
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Reel/Disc 2 of 12
Metadata
- 15 Apr 2010
Recording Date
- 00:56:59
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
Conditions Governing Access
Synopsis
Elaboration on free movie screening in Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital (KWSH). Hospital also organized Cantonese opera in Great World to raise funds. Foster father helped to collect donations for the hospital in the 60s. Foster father started off as an odd-jobber before becoming a sweeper in KWSH. How father was bitten by ants in the course of his work and had to be hospitalized. Dreamt about foster father’s death a week before he passed away. Customs she observed when her mother –in-law and foster father passed on. Interviewee joined KWSH in 1969. Why she believes in fortune telling.
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Reel/Disc 3 of 12
Metadata
- 15 Apr 2010
Recording Date
- 00:54:56
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
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Synopsis
Her intuition of her patient’s condition. Why she stayed on in her job. Why she became a Buddhist. Description of her quarter in Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital (KWSH). Communal kitchen. Little interactions with neighbors. Every family had their own cupboard for storing food. Father used to bring her to Ruby Cinema in Balestier Road for movies. Coffeeshop used to sell butter slice. How she got to know her husband. Father objected their relationship.
She had pen-pal in the past.
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Reel/Disc 4 of 12
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- 8 Jun 2010
Recording Date
- 00:57:37
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
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Synopsis
Got her pen-pal through the papers. Her teenage social experiences. Description of bus conductor in the early days. Studied in Griffiths Primary School. Subjects studied. Mother sew underwear for her. Sew own sanitary pad. Reaction to her first menstruation. Taboos concerning menstruations.
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Reel/Disc 6 of 12
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- 14 Jun 2010
Recording Date
- 00:56:16
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
Conditions Governing Access
Synopsis
Description of how they sharpen syringe needles manually and clean them after that. Interviewee learnt through observation. Mentioned some doctors in KWSH. Wound cleaning experiences. Her foster mother’s comments made her stay in the job. Her job hazards. Made own face mask in 1969. Elaboration on her wound cleaning experience.
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Reel/Disc 7 of 12
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- 14 Jun 2010
Recording Date
- 00:55:45
Running Time
- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
Elaboration on wound cleaning. Had machine to sterilize cotton. Description of hospital bed with a hole. Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital (KWSH) had their own night soil carrier. Incident where a patient was mistaken to be dead and wheeled to the mortuary. What they do to dead patients. Hospital attendant used to clean the dead before nurses took over the job. Description of KWSH mortuary. Why she did not tell foster parents about her work problems. Why she did not leave KWSH.
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Reel/Disc 8 of 12
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- 18 Aug 2010
Recording Date
- 00:55:33
Running Time
- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
Elaboration on what they do with the dead. Her initial job challenges. How she overcome her work problems. Described some of the problems patients gave her. Interviewee is called patient care assistant instead of nurse now. Incident where a patient tried to commit suicide by cutting his wrist. Elaboration on the hospital bed. They had a machine to sterilize the bed. Patient had pieces of cloth for cover instead of diapers in the past. Cleaning of patients. Elaboration on the machine for sterilizing beds. Patients uniform. They do not allow patients to have sharp instruments in hospital. Types of problem patients.
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Reel/Disc 9 of 12
Metadata
- 18 Aug 2010
Recording Date
- 00:56:10
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
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Synopsis
How colleagues took advantage of interviewee. Her main duties in the early days included visiting the wards with the doctor. Mentioned two doctors in Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital (KWSH). Interviewee’s uniform. How she learn to give injection in 1970s. She can no longer dispense medicine to patients now. Insertion of feeding tubes into patients. Mainly stroke and dementia patients in the past, now more other illness. There used to be a TB (Tuberculosis )ward. Case of patient staying in KWSH for a long time.
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Reel/Disc 10 of 12
Metadata
- 3 Sep 2010
Recording Date
- 00:56:05
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
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Synopsis
What she learnt in the nursing course. Received increment upon graduation. Course was only available to those with over 10 years of work experience. Nursing hierarchy in the past. Why Philippinos joined Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital (KWSH) in late 1980s. Why other foreign workers from China, Burma, Sri Lanka, India joined KWSH in 1990s. Reactions towards influx of foreign workers. Changes along with change in interviewee’s duties over the years: from Outpatient Department, Personal Assistant to Matron to working in the wards. Elaboration on patients bed. Use of glove. Feeding medicine to patients.
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