Psychiatrist Ang Yong Guan suspended for overprescribing medication to patient who later died

Dr Ang Yong Guan was found guilty of three charges of professional misconduct in May 2024. PHOTO: ST FILE

Selina Lum

UPDATED Feb 05, 2025, 03:58 PM

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SINGAPORE – Prominent psychiatrist Ang Yong Guan, who has been practising medicine for more than 36 years, has been handed a three-year suspension over numerous prescriptions he made to a patient – prescriptions that deviated from the relevant guidelines.

Dr Ang is also the assistant secretary-general of the Progress Singapore Party, and contested the Marymount seat in the 2020 General Election.

The suspension was handed down by the Court of Three Judges in a written judgment on Feb 5. The court had, in May 2024, found Dr Ang guilty of three charges of professional misconduct.

The most serious charge relates 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.