National Kidney Foundation Singapore
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| Abbreviation | NKFS |
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| Formation | 1969 |
| Type | NPO |
| Headquarters | 81 Kim Keat Road |
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| Coordinates | 1°19′36″N 103°51′17″E / 1.326725°N 103.854598°ECoordinates: 1°19′36″N 103°51′17″E / 1.326725°N 103.854598°E |
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Region served
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Singapore |
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Chairman
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Koh Poh Tiong |
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CEO
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Vacant |
| Website | http://www.nkfs.org/ |
The National Kidney Foundation Singapore (NKF) is a non-profit health organisation in Singapore. Its mission is to render services to kidney patients, encourage and promote renal research, as well as to carry out public education programs on kidney diseases. As of February 2016, NKF has 29 dialysis centres in Singapore.
NKF was founded in the early 1960s, after nephrologist Prof. Khoo Oon Teik witnessed many people suffering from kidney failure, including his own brother, Reverend Khoo Oon Eng. During that time, about 200 Singaporeans were dying each year from kidney failure. As a result, Prof. Khoo was determined to set up a National Kidney Foundation to help needy kidney patients. NKF was inaugurated on 7 April 1969, on World Health Day, by President Yusof Ishak.
In September 1982, NKF officially opened its first dialysis centre at the Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital. However, due to insufficient resources, it could only admit few patients. NKF started building dialysis centres in the vacant flats of HDB estates to lower costs and increase accessibility to dialysis for kidney patients. In 1987, the NKF’s first satellite dialysis centre was established in Toa Payoh.
In 2001, a new building for NKF’s headquarters was commissioned on Kim Keat Road. Singapore Buddhist Welfare Services, the late Tay Choon Hye, The Shaw Foundation, Singapore Pools and the Lee Foundation contributed a total of $21 million to the cost of building the NKF Centre.
In 2002, the Shaw Foundation donated $4 million to open a Children’s Kidney Centre at the National University Hospital to support children with kidney diseases.
In July 2005, a new board and management team was formed for a leaner, cost-effective NKF, after former CEO, T.T Durai, and directors stepped down due to breach of fiduciary duties, among others.
Following a recovery from the scandal, Chairman Gerard Ee, handed over the reins in 2012 to Koh Poh Tiong. In 2013, CEO Eunice Tay retired, and Edmund Kwok took over.
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