Janil Puthucheary

Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information & Ministry of Health Government Whip | Singapore

Minister Puthucherry is currently the Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information and the Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Health. Janil has also been Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Transport,Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Education, Minister of State, Ministry of Education, and Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information.

He went on to join the Duke-NUS Medical School, teaching first year medical students. Prior to entering politics he held the following posts: Senior Consultant – Children’s Intensive Care Unit, Department of Paediatric Medicine, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital Head, Department of Paediatric Subspecialties at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital Associate Professor Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School. He has worked as a Paediatrician and Paediatric Intensivist.

Janil graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the Queen’s University of Belfast, and received post graduate training in Belfast (Northern Ireland), London (UK) and Sydney (Australia). He completed his training at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore and continued to work there in the Children’s Intensive Care Unit.