To spark national interest in reliving and learning the history and development of healthcare for women and children in Singapore, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH) and National Archives of Singapore (NAS) are jointly organising the non-competitive “Women and Children Healthcare Heritage Hunt”.
KKH and NAS are inviting members of the public to share their stories, photographs, documents, audio-visual recordings and artifacts relating to women and children healthcare in Singapore. It could be a pre-war birth document, a mid-wife delivery set, or a personal experience of healthcare professionals or as patients. Based on the guidelines set out in Annex A, the public is invited to make their contributions from 3 December 2007. The hunt ends 30 June 2008. Items contributed will be reproduced and returned by 30 September 2008. Donation of the items is also welcomed.
The reproduced items will be archived with NAS for public consultation at its Archives Reading Room and via its online finding aid portal http://www.a2o.com.sg. As the event is jointly organised as part of the KKH’s 150th Anniversary and NAS’ 40th Anniversary celebrations in 2008, selected contributions will also be featured in KKH’s 150th Anniversary Book and showcased at the “History of Women and Children Healthcare in Singapore” exhibition that will be held in 2008.
As the custodian of the nation’s official records, NAS has built up a collection of archival records on the subject healthcare. These include speeches by government officials, posters and records on government policies on maternal and child healthcare. NAS’ Oral History Centre has also collected some 250 hours of oral history recordings of interesting experiences of doctors, midwives and staff of KKH as well as Singaporeans whose children were born in KKH. This hunt to collect public memories will further enrich NAS’ current archives on this subject.
For more information, please click on the following link:
http://www.kkh.com.sg/hunt