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Russian attack plunges Kyiv into cold, threatens nuclear-linked facilities

People take shelter inside a metro station during a Russian missile and drone strike in Kyiv, where temperatures have hovered below 0 deg C, on Jan 20.

SGH’s emergency department marks relocation with early-morning walk

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SGH staff taking a group photograph with the old Emergency sign box at 6.33am in front of the old Emergency Department (ED) at Block 1 before relocation to the new SGH Emergency/National Neuroscience Institute (NNI) building at 7am on Jan 18, 2026.

Singapore General Hospital (SGH) will be relocating its Emergency Department to a new building with effect from 7am on Jan 18. The first shift of nurses will commence work in the new Emergency Department at 7am and the first ambulance case will also arrive at the new facility after 7am. The lights in the old Emergency Department will be switched off, and the place will be renovated for other clinical services.

Singapore General Hospital (SGH) nurses walked from the old Emergency Department (ED) at Block 1 to the new premise at level three of the SGH Emergency/National Neuroscience Institute (NNI) building to mark the 7am cutover time of the ED’s move on Jan 18.

SGH is moving its ED as part of a 20-year SGH Campus Master Plan aimed at modernising Singapore’s oldest hospital. This building is located adjacent to the previous ED at SGH Block 1.

(ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI)

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US President Donald Trump at the Kennedy Center on March 17.

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