Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Mohan Singh, Harbans 孖星 (1935-1970)

updated August 12, 2013.

Ophthalmologist.

MBBS (HK) December 27, 1934. Registered to practice Hong Kong January 10, 1935 through EOP. Hong Kong Government, Government Civil Hospital 1935-37. Private practitioner 1937-EOP; address: #8 Des Voeux Road Central 1937; Pedder Building 1940-EOP. Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, status of the practice unknown. Resumed practice after the war nlt.1948 - 1970, address: Rm. 101, Pedder Building 1948-70. Club: Nav Bharat Club; played in the club's first hockey team 1951.

[Dr. Mohan Singh cured my trachoma problem when I was a young teenager. I can still vividly remember how scary the examinations were whereupon he would jam his gigantic fingers into my eyes and flip the eyelids inside out. Since the tests or treatments had included the administration of an eye cream that dilated the pupils so I went “blind” every time I left his consultation room. Thank God I had my mother.]

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, January 11, 1935, Notice #28; May 7, 1937, Notice # 321; May 10, 1949, Notice #606; May 9, 1941, Notice #558. 《香港年鑑》第二十三回,醫療輯要 (Hong Kong Year Book, 1970)。

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