AMONG the staff members who received loans from Ren Ci Hospital was Dr Ong Seh Hong, now its chief operating officer and clinical director.

The former head of the hospital's human resources department, Ms Joyce Teng, said that he was given a $60,000 loan in 2000. She reckons that it was probably the biggest loan given out during that time she was employed at Ren Ci, from 1997 to 2001.

Dr Ong's name surfaced on Thursday, the sixth day of the trial against Ren Ci ex-chief Ming Yi, when the subject turned to whether the hospital had a policy on granting staff loans.

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