Singapore, Nov. 1 -- Towering apartment blocks could replace the country's last sprawling low-rise medical complex in Moulmein Road - the former Communicable Disease Centre (CDC) where public health crises were battled for more than a century.
The site has been earmarked by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) for residential development, and previous news reports note plans to demolish it.
Vacated last December, the site resembles both a pastoral scene and a developer's dream.
The only relics saved so far are the black lion emblem which was at the front entrance, a cholera bed, old photos and a historical timeline of the CDC.
Infectious diseases specialist Hsu Li Yang and historian Loh Kah Seng are now urgently hoping to save at...