THE DO-GOODER
Nov 25, 2020
4 minutes
dr sudesna roy chowdhury, 24
House officer, Changi General Hospital
Even before she started work officially, this young doctor had helped to save lives with her quick thinking. Her medical translation site TranslateFor.sg was used by countless healthcare workers to communicate with migrant workers at the height of the outbreak.
At one point, it got over 50,000 hits in a month. So it’s hardly a hyperbole when we say that her website helped to save lives, although Dr Roy Chowdhury’s humility would beg to differ. What she didn’t tell journalists previously was that before trying to build the website herself, she had reached out to two guys who work in tech, in hopes of getting
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