Estate of late Singapore doctor bequeaths S$6.75 million to NUS

Dr Freda Paul was wrongly influenced by her maid and two foreign workers into giving them S$5 million in 2010. - PHOTO: FREDA PAUL'S LAWYER

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): The estate of the late Dr Freda Paul, who suffered from dementia and was wrongly influenced by her maid and two foreign workers into giving them S$5 million, has bequeathed $6.75 million to her alma mater, the National University of Singapore (NUS), the university said in a statement on Tuesday (Dec 29).

The gift from Dr Paul, a respected paediatrician at the Singapore General Hospital and associate professor of paediatrics at the then Faculty of Medicine, University of Singapore, was willed in 2007.