Singapore General Hospital

The Singapore General Hospital (SGH) is the public sector's flagship hospital. Established in 1821, the SGH is Singapore's oldest and largest acute tertiary hospital and national referral centre. Together with four specialty centres located within the SGH campus, patients have ready access to more than 30 clinical specialties. The specialty centres include the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC), National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS), National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS), National Dental Centre Singapore (NDCS) and National Neuroscience Institute (NNI). SGH also serves as the national referral centre for Plastic Surgery and Burns, Renal Medicine, Nuclear Medicine, Pathology and Haematology. With about 1,500 beds and a pool of over 550 specialists. Annually, about 70,000 patients are admitted to our wards, and another 600,000 attended to at our Specialist Outpatient Clinics.