Alexandra Hospital

This is Alexandra Hospital. I knew little about its history. However, this is not my first time coming to the hospital. In my lifetime, I had visited this hospital several times — not that I was admitted here, but that my family members were admitted.

The ‘first time‘ (on 3 June 2010) that I came to this hospital again after such a long time (perhaps about 10 or more years), I was so surprised to see all the new development at the hospital. It is such a nice hospital now.

I had not stepped into this hospital for so long, but on this day, 3.6.10, as I walked in the hospital, I began to recall my past ‘experience’ or memories of this place… Opposite the main lobby or main entrance of the hospital is this little garden as shown below. It is the same old pool or fountain that was present since years ago. However, the water was changed, and the fish (koi) can be seen clearly swimming in the water. It is beautiful. (But on that day, and subsequent days that I had gone to the hospital, I had never seen the fountain being on.)

Main building or lobby of Alexandra Hospital

Alexandra Hospital’s Garden showing this circular pool of water fountain with fish swimming in the water

Beside the water fountain there is this plague by National Heritage Board that tell us more about the History of Alexandra Hospital

History of Alexandra Hospital
On the plague it reads: In 1938, the British built this as a military hospital. Japanese troops attacked the hospital on 14 February 1942 in retaliation against retreating Allied soldiers who had fired at them from the hospital grounds. They killed an estimated 50 staff and patients. The following morning, the Japanese soldiers killed another 150.

After the war, the hospital reopened as the principal British Military Hospital in Asia. It was handed over to the Singapore Government on 10 September 1971. It reopened as Alexandra Hospital, a civilian hospital, on 15 September 1971. Since April 1995, the hospital also serves as the Alexandra campus of the National University of Singapore’s medical school.

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