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Singapore National Eye Centre

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On 3 March 1989, SNEC was incorporated, and commenced operations in October 1990 with Professor Arthur Lim appointed as its founding medical director. Lim was considered the ‘father of ophthalmology’ in Southeast Asia.
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SNEC undertakes 100% video recording of major surgeries and a full audit of outcomes, as well as the pursuit of high-impact translational research.
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SNEC manages more than 380,000 patient visits and over 41,000 surgeries annually. Its services include Corneal & External Eye Disease,
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In 1999, SNEC underwent a building extension of SGD $ 50 million, establishing an eight-story building consisting of two floors of
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In August 2019, the SNEC Myopia Centre was launched. This facility allows specialised management of
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that led to the creation of an ophthalmology and visual sciences academic programme.
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SNEC was officially opened in 1991 by then Health Minister,
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Coordinates
1°16′56″N 103°50′09″E / 1.282248009766369°N 103.8357848289906°E / 1.282248009766369; 103.8357848289906
Funding
Public hospital
Type
Specialist
www.snec.com.sg
Hospitals in Singapore
Cataract
Glaucoma
Neuro-Ophthalmology
Oculoplastic
Strabismus
Refractive Surgery
Yeo Cheow Tong
outpatient clinics
Duke-NUS
myopia
"Professor Arthur Lim Siew Ming (1934-2014)"
Archived
"Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences"
Archived
"New centre to prevent, control and treat myopia to open in the first quarter of 2019"
Archived
"About SNEC"
"About SERI"
"About VisionSave"
"Ophthalmology"
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