As a 380-bed tertiary care private hospital, Raffles Hospital offers a full complement of specialist services combined with some of the most advanced medical technology. Its specialists work as a team to achieve a holistic approach to patient care.
Raffles Hospital's inpatient facilities combine advanced and well-equipped diagnostic and treatment facilities with well-appointed patient rooms. These include delivery suites, neonatal intensive care unit, operating theatres, angiography suite, intensive care unit, radiology and clinical laboratories.
The operating rooms are specially equipped for a complete range of surgeries from minimally invasive surgery to cardiac surgery, while the diagnostic facilities feature the latest imaging systems such as CT and MRI. The hospital's rooms are designed and outfitted with hotel standards of comfort and furnishings and come with attached bathrooms, televisions, telephones and room safes. Internet access is also available on request.
Raffles Hospital also has a host of multi-disciplinary outpatient speciality clinics which includes Raffles Aesthetics, Raffles Cancer Centre, Raffles Children's Centre, Raffles Chinese Medicine, Raffles Counselling Centre, Raffles Dental, Raffles Eye Centre, Raffles ENT & Surgery Centre, Raffles Fertility Centre, Raffles Heart Centre, Raffles Health Screeners, Raffles Internal Medicine Centre, Raffles Japanese Clinic and Raffles Women's Centre.
Highlights
- Singapore made world headlines in 2003 when a team of doctors from Raffles Hospital successfully separated a pair of Korean twin baby girls, Ji Hye and Sa Rang, who were joined at the spine.
- Raffles Surgery Centre offers Needlescopic Thoracic Sympathectomy, a minimally invasive procedure to treat excessive sweating, particularly for sweaty palms and underarms.
- Raffles Orthopaedic Centre offers percutaneous nucleoplasty - an outpatient procedure to treat disc herniation, nerve root irritation due to smaller disc bulges or contained ruptures in the spinal discs.
- Raffles Internal Medicine Centre offers advanced gastro-intestinal and hepatology (liver, gall bladder and bile duct) procedures such as 24-hour oesophageal PH monitoring, small bowel imaging using double balloon endoscopy and capsule endoscopy, as well as advanced treatment of hepatitis carriers.
- Raffles Eye Centre offers 23 gauge Vitrectomy, the latest stitchless retinal eye procedure in Asia. A minimally invasive procedure, it can treat many vitro-retinal eye problems.
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