Hearing from the Helpline: “I feel lost in this big city”
We hear from Jyothi, HealthServe’s Crisis Helpline Specialist, as she recounts her story with Vihaan (not his real name), a migrant brother who came down with chicken pox one day after starting work in Singapore. “As a Crisis Helpline Specialist, I encounter a wide range of cases, each with unique challenges and needs. […]
Life After a Work Injury: Surviving the impact of a 250kg fan falling onto my legs
“When I woke up, I found my legs wrapped in bandages. I thought I might have lost them forever.” Imagine waking up in an ICU, unable to feel your legs. This was the ordeal 31-year-old Pandi faced a year ago, after a 250kg fan hit his legs in a fan repair service gone […]
Migrant Volunteer: I want to give back as I have received
Access to healthcare remains an unfulfilled need for many low-wage migrant workers in Singapore. This World Health Day, we feature our migrant friend Imon, a former client who has stepped up as HealthServe’s volunteer. Today, Imon is a peer leader who takes pride and joy in engaging and educating his migrant brothers about […]
HealthServe Co-Founder Dr Goh: Imagine a World Without NGOs
By Yang Guangyu, HealthServe intern & student of NUS Master of Social Sciences in Communication What lies ahead for non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Singapore and beyond? This World NGO Day*, we catch up with our visionary co-founder Dr Goh Wei Leong on his motivations, learnings as well as aspirations for the sector. “Have […]
Seeking Affordable Healthcare
“I was very upset” recalls Rona, when he had to choose between paying for dental treatment and sending money back home to his family in April this year. He visited the dentist before dormitories went into lockdown this year. Rona was told that treatment for this toothache will cost $200-$300 and says he […]
Intervention to help with H’s ear discomfort
After experiencing discomfort in his left ear in April 2020, H* sought treatment at an external clinic. However, the pain recurred in August and that was when he came to HealthServe’s Geylang clinic on a friend’s recommendation. His condition affected his hearing and also caused pain when he was exposed to loud sounds. […]
Patient Pei Jun
Pei Jun first heard about HealthServe in late 2016 through a church member who volunteers as a doctor, and ever since then, she has never looked back. As a nurse, Pei Jun helps with the dispensing of medications and ensures that the patients understand the dosage and possible side effects of them. She […]
Cheery Cheryl, our Volunteer Dentist
Dr Cheryl is currently volunteering as a dentist in HealthServe. She first heard about HealthServe through her classmate in dental school. Finding volunteering a meaningful way of serving the migrant community and gaining more insights into the inner-workings of a clinic, Dr Cheryl began volunteering in HealthServe in 2016. She mainly helped with […]
Enthusiastic Eunice, our Volunteer Clinic Assistant
“They [migrant brothers] are also people, they are humans too, if you are willing to know them, they have many interesting stories to share, and their country is not as backward as you think.” Eunice started her journey in HealthServe with the registrations of the migrant brothers and currently volunteers as a clinic […]
Dr Hamid, our Volunteer Orthopaedic
Dr Hamid is currently one of the doctors helping out at the HealthServe clinics. During his training years as an Orthopaedic Surgeon, his colleague told him that the clinics in HealthServe see many migrant workers with musculoskeletal problems. Realising that this group of migrant workers were an underserved population that needed help, he […]
Affordable ENT Services for Manmun
HealthServe holds five clinics per week that provide GP consultations and dentist appointments for migrant workers, but sometimes workers come in with health issues that require more specialized attention. In these cases, we rely on our pool of Designated Referral Partners — doctors who have generously agreed to provide pro bono or discounted […]
Our Class Monitor, FJ
Known as the “class monitor” at HealthServe for his respectable image among the migrant brothers, FJ is always seen with a smile across his face. Whenever another fellow migrant brother needs assistance or advice, FJ will readily offer his help without fail. But what others fail to notice is the pain hidden behind […]
Curious Candy, our Volunteer Dentist
Dr Candy is one of the few dentists who volunteer regularly at our clinics. A little more than a year ago, Dr Candy’s interest in HealthServe was sparked when her friend introduced and she saw the increasing demand for dental services in the migrant worker community. She finds communication to be the most […]
Bold Brandon, the Volunteer Pharmacist
We met Brandon on a bustling Tuesday evening at HealthServe’s Geylang Clinic while he was busy sorting out the medications, preparing for the hectic night ahead of him. Brandon first heard about HealthServe through a friend who was a staff in HealthServe, and since then it has been more than a decade. He […]
Easygoing Elroy, our Volunteer GP
Starting here over 10 years ago, Dr Elroy is one of HealthServe’s longest volunteers. It was his church friend who introduced him to Dr Goh Wei Leong, the founder of HealthServe. Since then, he began volunteering at HealthServe consistently. During those days, he mainly helped out with administrative work, but now he provides […]
