Singapore General Hospital will NEVER ask you to transfer money over a call. If in doubt, call the 24/7 ScamShield helpline at 1799, or visit the ScamShield website at www.scamshield.gov.sg.

Help Us Improve Your Experience:

We’d love to hear from you! Rate the SGH website and share your feedback so we can enhance your online experience and serve you better. Click here to rate us

Home Our Specialties Pathology Pathology Lab Services Materials and Supplies

Materials and Supplies

Pathology Laboratory Services

Lab Disciplines (Special instructions)

Test Request Media Order Forms

Sample Collection

Sample Collection Services

Sample Labelling and Despatch

Laboratory Reports

Materials and Supplies

Quality Programmes, Certification and Accreditation

National Proficiency Testing Scheme

Criteria for Unacceptable Samples

Critical Test Results and Laboratory Values

Panel Tests/Profiles

< Back to Pathology

Hospitals, clinics and laboratories are to use their own sample collection devices like containers, tubes, swabs and others for sample collection.

The Division of Pathology supplies the following transport media/containers to Clinical Laboratories of restructured and government hospitals for routine use:

Virus transport medium (VTM) for virus isolation.
Urine culture bottle for cytomegalovirus (CMV) and adenovirus.
Transport medium for chorionic villi (CV) / products of conception (POC) cytogenetic tests.
Transport media for culture of Metamycoplasma/Ureaplasma, Haemophilus ducreyi and Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
Blood culture vials for aerobic bacteria, anaerobic bacteria, mycobacteria and fungi.
Dipslide for urine culture.

Request for the above items from the Client and Specimen Management Section of the Division of Pathology.