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The Lives They Live: She reached out to Aids patients when no one would
While the pioneer leaders were the original architects of Singapore, everyday heroes helped build society here. This is another story about such people in the series, The Lives They Live.
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Rahimah Rashith
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The year was 1985. Singapore had just discovered its first cases of Aids.
At the former Middle Road Hospital, which was designated to handle Aids cases at the time, two doctors resigned and 25 nurses requested to be transferred out of fear, but not Mrs Iris Verghese.
