Lunch With Sumiko
If you listen, things can get done
Director of medical services Kenneth Mak places great store on being approachable, even when he's in the thick of tackling a pandemic, he tells Executive Editor Sumiko Tan
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Associate Professor Kenneth Mak has become such a familiar face to Singaporeans that you feel you know him, even before you have met him. As the director of medical services (DMS), he has appeared at almost every press conference held by the multi-ministry task force on Covid-19. That would be about 70 media briefings over the past two years, making him both a household name as well as a recognisable face.
We're meeting in early December and he has chosen to have lunch at Ka-Soh Restaurant in Greenwood Avenue. Three other tables are occupied and I notice some diners looking up when he arrives.
