Hong Kong-based Malaysian, 70, excited at chance of being world’s oldest medical graduate


Toh Hong-keng decided to study medicine after retiring from working as an executive based in Hong Kong. - Photo: Handout via SCMP

HONG KONG (SCMP): Toh Hong-keng, 70, a retired Malaysian executive based in Hong Kong, recalls gently grasping a baby by the neck to pull it from its mother’s womb during a delivery at a hospital in the Philippines.

“Everything happened so fast. My god. To experience it is ... you feel so good about it,” he said, recalling his first time assisting in such a procedure.

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