Miracle Man Dr Swee Tan | A Gallery from Asian Report | RNZ National

He’s helped innumerable people suffering from cancer, burns or severed limbs and has been nick-named the “Miracle Man”, yet this man came from rural Malaysia working coconut plantations as a child.

Swee Tung (seated on the puppy) next to his elder brother, Senggarang Village, Malaysia.

The house Dr Tan grew up in, Senggarang Village, Johor, Malaysia.

Swee age 14, Johor, Malaysia

Dr Swee Tan Graduation, Melbourne University 1985.

PHD Graduation, University of Otago, Dr Swee Tan with his wife Sanchia and three children.

Dr Swee Tan, Hutt Hospital, Wellington

Aimee as a baby.

Aimee after plastic surgery and laser treatment.

Charley-Jean - aged three months before treatment.

Charley-Jean - aged three months before treatment.

Charley-Jean - seven days after treatment.

Charley-Jean - one month after treatment.

Charley-Jean - five months after treatment.

Heather, aged seven weeks, before treatment.

Heather, eight months after propranolol treatment.

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