We welcome guide dogs accompanying our visually-impaired patients or visitors to our hospital.
But for the purpose of infection control, the guide dog cannot access the following areas:
- All Intensive Care Units (ICUs)
- Areas which serve immunocompromised patients and where invasive procedures are performed, such as:
- National University Centre of Organ Transplant (NUCOT)
- National University Cancer Institute Singapore (NCIS)
- Viva-University Children’s Cancer Centre
- Wards 2A, 45, 54, 55, 56, 58, 7B, 8A, 8B, 8C
- Post Anaesthesia Care Unit (PACU)
- Inpatient Dialysis Centre
- Ambulatory Surgical Ward (ASW)
- Endoscopy Centre
- Ward 22 (Delivery Suite)
- Isolation Wards
- Areas where patient is under isolation
The guide dog should always be leashed and under the supervision of the owner.
The owner should clean up after their guide dog.
We seek the owner's understanding that we may remove the guide dog from our hospital if it exhibits behaviours such as aggression, noise, not housebroken etc. or strays and initiates contact with other patients who have pet allergies or are uncomfortable to be within the vicinity of dogs.