Special Visiting Rules apply to the following departments

VIP & Corniche Suites: The patients categorised in the VIP list have open visiting hours till 12:00 midnight

Labor Ward / Main Delivery Unit (MDU):   Visitors are not allowed. Only two support persons are allowed to stay with you while you are in labour. To avoid any disturbance or work delay, the support persons should be chosen in advance, prior to admission.  Your husband is the only male allowed inside the room.

High Dependency Unit (HDU): Visiting is at the discretion of the Senior Charge Midwife or designee.

Neonatal Unit: As the parents of the baby, you will get a permission visiting card for your regular visit. Only one relative is allowed to accompany the baby's father or mother from 4pm to 6pm. In order to reduce the risk of infection to babies, no children are allowed to visit. Fathers will not be permitted to stay or sleep over-night in the mother and baby room

Operation Theatre: If you are going to have a Caesarean Section under regional anaesthesia, your husband or alternative female relative may be present. In the case of general anaesthesia, no relatives will be permitted in the operating theatre. The surgical team / or ward sister should be informed about your request to attend. Two family members and / or friends may wait on the 3rd floor waiting area.

Medical Imaging Department (MID):  Your husband is allowed to be with you in the scan room.

Outpatient Department (OPD)/ Urgent Care Department (UCD):  Your husband is allowed to be with you in the consultation room, but not allowed to wait in the female waiting area.    

Women's Health Center (WHC): Your husband is allowed to be with you in the consultation room.

Exceptions to the above visiting hours may be made when agreed by the medical and nursing staff and only in certain situations.

Balloons

In an effort to avoid allergies developing in your baby and/or yourself and others please request your family and friends NOT to have latex balloon arrangements delivered to the hospital.

Flower arrangements

Please do not have large flower arrangements in your room or in the corridor. These will obstruct the entry and exit from your room in the event of an emergency. Flowers in the hall way will obstruct the hand rail which is there to assist you while walking in the corridor.