SINGAPORE: Progress Singapore Party (PSP) assistant secretary-general Ang Yong Guan will not contest in the next general election following the three-year suspension of his medical licence.
In response to queries, the PSP on Wednesday (Feb 5) said it accepted the Court of Appeal’s decision to suspend Dr Ang.
It added that Dr Ang, a psychiatrist, had informed the party that he would not seek re-election to its central executive committee or participate in the general election, which must be held by November 2025.
In the 2020 General Election, Dr Ang contested the newly formed Marymount SMC, where he lost to Minister of State for Education and Manpower Gan Siow Huang.
Gan won with 55.04 per cent of the vote.
Dr Ang, who has been practising medicine for more than 36 years, was handed a three-year suspension on Feb 5 over prescriptions he made to a patient that deviated from guidelines.
The suspension was handed down by the Court of Three Judges in a written judgment.
The court had, in May 2024, found Dr Ang guilty of three charges of professional misconduct.
The most serious charge related to the last prescription issued to the patient, which entailed a dramatic one-off increase in the dosages of two drugs well beyond the stated maximum limits.
The patient, Quek Kiat Siong, who was then 50, died four days after this prescription was issued in 2012.
The 2020 General Election was Dr Ang’s third run for elected office since 2011.
The former army colonel stood as a Singapore Democratic Party candidate in Holland-Bukit Timah GRC in 2011 and in Tanjong Pagar GRC in 2015 with the now-defunct Singaporeans First party.
He spent 23 years in the Singapore Armed Forces, where he headed the psychological medicine branch, before leaving in 2003 to start his own private practice. - The Straits Times/ANN
