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Fact-finding mission: A delegation consisting of Dr Wu’s descendants and scholars visiting the Penang-born epidemiologist’s clinic at Jalan Sultan Idris Shah in Ipoh .
Dr Wu, he said, did not have any relatives or descendants in Ipoh, which made it difficult to get additional information about his life.“We believe he may also have another clinic here as well, and we hope to learn more about it,” he told reporters during a brunch meeting held by Perak MCA yesterday.Dr Wu, who died at the age of 80 in Penang in 1960, was the first and only Malaysian to be nominated for a Nobel Prize in medicine in 1935.
“We will visit several locations in Ipoh, including his former clinic and a road that was named after him,” he said.
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