Sellapan Ramanathan, Singapore’s sixth president dies, American epidemiologist Donald Henderson no more
Q. Who was Singapore’s sixth and longest serving president and is no more following a stroke?- Published on 24 Aug 16a. Sellapan Ramanathan
b. Lee Ka Hsing
c. Lee Hsien Loong
d. None of the above
ANSWER: Sellapan Ramanathan
Sellapan Ramanathan, Singapore’s sixth and longest serving president, died on 22nd August at 92.
- Widely called SR Nathan, he was hospitalised in critical condition after a stroke on July 31
- It was his second stroke in less than two years.
- He served two terms as Singapore’s head of state from 1999 to 2011 before being succeeded by Tony Tan Keng Yam>
- Ramanathan started work without completing studied to settle family debts. He held many public service posts and occupied the highest office in the land.
- He is survived by a wife, daughter, son and three grandchildren.
- Meanwhile, noted American epidemiologist Donald Ainslie Henderson-leader of the international campaign against smallpox in the 1980s has passed away at age 87 due to complications from a hip fracture
- DA will be known as a disease detective leading to the eradication of smallpox more than 30 years ago.
- Henderson spent years as an official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organisation before joining the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Public Health as its dean.
- He was also bioterrorism and science adviser under three presidential administrations in the US
- In 1980, WHO declared the world Smallpox free.
