# She came to Singapore as a dialysis nurse for two years but stayed for 30 – now 70, she has no plans to retire

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/she-came-to-singapore-as-a-dialysis-nurse-for-two-years-but-stayed-for-30-now-70-she-has-no-plans-to-retire/
- Published: 2026-11-08T22:38:04+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-08T23:27:50+00:00
- Original publisher: CNA (publisher lean: Centre)
- Original article: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/women/daw-mi-mi-dialysis-nurse-alexandra-hospital-6506216
- Topics: Health, Medicine, World

## Key points

- A two-year Singapore placement became a 30-year nursing career.
- At 70, Mi Mi still cares for dialysis patients.
- Student protests in Myanmar changed her path from chemistry to nursing.

## Summary

Daw Mi Mi went to Singapore in 1996 for what was meant to be a two-year placement as a dialysis nurse, but has stayed for 30 years, caring for kidney patients at Alexandra Hospital. Now 70, she continues working six years beyond Singapore’s statutory retirement age, drawing on a nursing career that began after student protests in Myanmar disrupted her university studies.

After graduating as a nurse in 1978, Mi Mi spent 17 years in operating theatres in Myanmar, including helping evacuate patients during a hospital fire. She had no prior experience with dialysis machines when she applied for the Singapore role, but went on to support thousands of patients. Her path took her from studying chemistry in Rangoon to nursing after universities closed following protests over the death of former UN secretary-general U Thant.

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