Visiting a patient

Visiting your loved ones at the ward?

To ensure that our patients have enough rest, visiting hours are scheduled twice daily from 12 noon to 2.00pm and 5.00pm to 8.30pm. No visitors are allowed for suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients in the isolation wards (including ARI ward) until further notice.

To Wards

Only 1 designated visitor per patient is allowed in the ward, for 30 minutes per day.
Patients admitted 7 days or longer can have an additional designated visitor.

Visitors, including registered caregivers, who are staying in the ward for more than 30 mins and fulfill the visiting criteria are required to undergo a COVID19 Antigen Rapid Test (ART) at our ART Centre.

Find out more about the test, visiting criteria and our ART Centre >

To Intensive Care Unit (ICU) / Patients on Dangerously Ill List

Only 2 visitors per patient are allowed in the ward at any one time, for 30 minutes, per day
Maximum of 5 visitors in the designated visitors list

Children below 12 years old are not allowed to visit in inpatient unless patient is in:

Palliative care,
ICU, or
Under special social circumstances
(E.g. Patient is single-parent; OR patient is depressed due to prolonged inpatient stay etc. For Team Doctors, Nursing, MSW to assess, advise and inform Visitor Services ahead of visit.)

Parents/Guardians will be required to sign an indemnity form at the Visitors Registration Counters). Validity of the Indemnity Form and approval to visit will be valid for entire admission episode. *Excludes Isolation, Labour and Neonatal Wards

At our wards

Visitors are NOT allowed to eat or drink within the wards
Keep your masks on at all times while in the wards
Refrain from using patients’ toilets in the wards
Avoid sitting on patients’ beds.

What is Needed:

Ward Visitors

Visitor’s name and identity card
Patient’s name
Patient’s ward, room and bed number
A valid local mobile number

For infection control purposes, children below 12 years old are not permitted to visit.

Non-Ward Visitors

Visitor’s name and identity card
Patient’s name and identity card number
A valid local mobile number

Patient Information Enquiries

If you have not informed your relatives and friends of your whereabouts in the Hospital, the Hospital's Information Counter staff will be able to assist them in locating the ward you are in.

Alternatively, they can also call our General Enquiry line at Tel: (65) 6222 3322 to request for the information.

Automated Visitor Management System (AVMS)

Visitor Registration Kiosk The AVMS helps to manage the number of visitors to the wards, allowing for a more convenient and hassle-free visit at SGH. The system also facilitates contact tracing for the safety of our patients and visitors when the need arises.