Kandang Kerbau Women's and Children's Hospital
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The Kandang Kerbau Women's and Children's Hospital (abbrev: KKH; Chinese: 竹脚妇幼医院) is the largest hospital specialising in healthcare for women and children in Singapore. From a 30-bed maternity hospital founded in 1924, it has grown into an 888-bed hospital providing obstetric and gynaecology, neonatology and paediatric services. Often affectionally referred as "KK" amongst locals, it is the birthplace of a sizeable proportion of Singaporeans, deliverying over half of total newborns in the country as early as 1938.
In 1966, the hospital entered the Guinness Book of Records for delivering the highest number of newborns within a single maternity facility for that year, and it continued to hold on to this record for a full decade, delivering 85% of the population year after year.
When the hospital moved to its present site, the old premises was marked as a historical site by the National Heritage Board, a tribute to an institution which has been the birthplace of over 1.2 million Singaporeans since its inception.
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As a result of a restructuring exercise in the local healthcare scene, the hospital became a member of the Singapore Health Services in 2000.
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