History:
Paediatric Urology and Nephrology had its beginnings in University of Malaya in the 1970s where Professor Lam Khuan Leng took an interest in the specialty and provided renal biopsy services for the whole country. Dr Fabiola de Cruz became the second paediatrician to train in the field. In the Ministry of Health Pediatric Nephrology developed later when Dr. Indon Lajim returned in 1983 following training in UK. She was later joined by Dr Lim Yam Ngo who is the current head of Paediatric Nephrology services in the Ministry.
Renal pathology services were not readily available then and now. The late Professor K Prathap of the Department of Pathology, University of Malaya provided such service in the early years. Subsequently a number of pathologists took an interest in renal pathology and went for training. They include Dr Chong Siew Meng (who later left to work in Singapore), Dr. Looi Lai Meng, Dr Phang Koon Seng and Dr Cheah Phaik Leng.
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