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Orthopedic surgeon

Ang Swee Chai (Chinese: 洪瑞钗) is an orthopedic surgeon and author. She is a co-founder of the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians.

Life

Ang was born in Penang, Malaysia but raised in Singapore.

She attended Kwong Avenue Primary School, Raffles Girls' School, and the National University of Singapore where she studied medicine. She then received a master's degree in Occupational Medicine in 1976.^[1]

In 1977, Ang married Singaporean human rights lawyer Francis Khoo.

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Two weeks after the marriage, she was briefly detained during a government crackdown on dissidents as the authority attempted to arrest her husband. She fled to London to be with her husband and they were granted asylum there.^[3] She trained to be an orthopaedic surgeon in Britain, where she obtained her FRCS (Eng) and completed her training in Newcastle.

She later became the first female consultant orthopaedic surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital in