From TV Host to Acupuncture Physicia

TV host Pornsak does acupuncture on dad in quest to be TCM physician

By Charlene Chua

Local TV host Pornsak is now a qualified traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) physician.

He passed his final exams for his bachelor's degree in TCM from the Guangzhou University Of Chinese Medicine last week - seven years after he started the part-time, distance education programme.

Part of the reason he took up the course is because of his 92-year-old dad, Mr Koh Han Ee, who raised him single-handedly after his mother died when he was five.

It was Pornsak's Father's Day gift - he can now tend to his father's health personally.

Nine years ago, his father's left hand started swelling for no apparent reason.

After taking his dad, a businessman, to hospitals in Thailand and Singapore, he still could not find a cure for his swollen hand.

Desperate, Pornsak, 33, sought the help of well-known Singapore TCM physician Chen Mei Er.

He told The New Paper: "At that time, I had taken my dad everywhere.

"Dr Chen, with one needle and using acupuncture, cured my father. It was amazing.

"My dad's hand has not swelled (up) since."

Dr Porn, as his friends like local actress Michelle Chong have affectionately started calling him, can now treat his father's ailments personally.

But learning to become a TCM physician wasn't easy, he said.

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