The new extension block of Hospital Fatimah’s School of Nursing which will provide improved facilities for the school as well as enable a larger intake of students in the future, was blessed by Bishop Elect Msgr. Sebastian Francis of the Penang Diocese recently.

Also present at the auspicious event was The Congregation of the Brothers of Mercy who arrived from Switzerland, Germany and Singapore which included its Superior General Rev. Brother Peter Berg.

Hospital Fatimah was founded by the Congregation of the Brothers of Mercy and has been providing health care services to the Ipoh community since 1974. Part of the celebration included wishing Rev. Brother Wolfgang Widding who celebrated his ‘grand 80th’ birthday on the same day.

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