SINGAPORE: Outgoing chairman of the National Kidney
Foundation (NKF), Mr Gerard Ee, has described his successor, Mr Koh
Poh Tiong, as a very good man.
Mr Koh, former CEO of Asia Pacific Breweries, will
be taking over the reins from Mr Ee on 29
October.
Mr Ee added that there were many capable people in
Singapore who had come forward to be his successor.
But finding one wasn't easy.
Mr Koh was chosen because he has a special quality.
Mr Ee said: "My successor is one that I hold in great esteem, whose
heart is in the right place because he personally has two very
close friends who are kidney failure patients. So it's important to
me that the successor should be someone who empathises, who
understands the pain and sufferings that the patients have to go
through. It's not just a question of being efficient, but having a
big dose of empathy."
- CNA/ck