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‘Gaza makes me cry every day’: Humanitarian Ang Swee Chai is devoted to helping Palestinians

Dr Ang Swee Chai, an orthopaedic surgeon who treated patients in war-torn Lebanon in the 1980s and co-founded Medical Aid for Palestinians in 1984. ST PHOTO: ONG WEE JIN
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Dr Ang Swee Chai cannot stop thinking about the war now raging in Gaza.

“I’d go back immediately if I can,” says the diminutive orthopaedic surgeon who has treated war victims under heavy bombardment in Lebanon as well as the occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank for the past four decades.

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