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Fast Facts about Singapore
- Singapore is the region's premier destination for international healthcare services. More than 150,000 international patients seek quality medical healthcare services here each year.
- The world's first successful cord blood transplant from an unrelated donor on a patient with a disorder which prevents red blood cells from carrying oxygen (Thalassaemia Major), was performed in Singapore in 2001.
- In 2001, Singapore doctors successfully separated a pair of craniopagus conjoined (joined at the head) twins from Nepal in a milestone operation that lasted more than 90 hours.
- Singapore's Centre for Transfusion Medicine is internationally reputed for its high standards of blood safety practices and management of blood transfusion services. It is recognized as a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre.
- In 2000, Singapore doctors performed Asia's first unicompartmental arthroplasty. This minimally invasive surgery offers an effective treatment option for patients with arthritis of the medial compartment of the knee, sparing them the need for a total knee replacement while ensuring faster recovery and a shorter hospital stay.
- In 1995, Singapore doctors carried out the world's first successful peripheral blood stem cell transplant from an unrelated donor. It gave a new lease of life to a five-year-old Malaysian patient with Thalassaemia Major - a disorder which prevents red blood cells from carrying oxygen. The patient now leads a normal life, without needing daily injections and monthly blood transfusions.
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