Our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is the largest facility in Singapore that treats premature babies and infants, including those referred from other hospitals.
KKH has one of the lowest mortality rates in the world, at 1.99 per 1,000 live births. This outcome has been made possible by close coordination between our perinatal and neonatal teams to manage high-risk pregnancies and deliveries and extend timely and advanced neonatal care to the newborn.
Range Of Services
- Neonatal intensive and special care
- Standby for high risk deliveries
- High risk and birth defect consultations
- Newborn Screening
- Clinical screening of well babies
- Universal Newborn Hearing Screen
- Neonatal neurodevelopmental follow up of preemies
- Specialist outpatient consultation
- Neonatal transport (including regional)
- KK Human Milk Bank
Resource For Patients And Family
Preventing Flat Head in Your Baby
Small for Gestational Age Infant Leaflet
Contact Information
Level 2, Women's Tower
65 6225 5554 (General Enquiries)
Early Bird Baby Club
Neonatal parent support group for premature infants who are born less than 1500grams at birth
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KKH-MCHRI joins landmark study to establish first global system to track health before pregnancy
KK Women's and Children's Hospital Maternal and Child Health Research Institute (KKH-MCHRI) is part of a pioneering study that is paving the way towards the first global system for monitoring the health of people planning to start a family.
18 Mar 2026
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Maternal Mental Wellbeing Shapes Children’s Early Cognitive Development, Gusto Study Finds
A Singapore study tracking 328 mother-child pairs has found two distinct pathways linking maternal mental health to child outcomes at age four. The research from A*STAR Institute for Human Development and Potential (A*STAR IHDP), in collaboration with the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), and KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH), draws on data from the Growing Up in Singapore Towards healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) birth cohort.
17 Mar 2026
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Temasek Foundation – KKH Genomics for Kids in ASEAN programme expands access to genomic services for rare diseases in Singapore and the region
The Genomics for Kids in ASEAN programme, a regional collaboration between the KKH Maternal and Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI) and Temasek Foundation is transforming the landscape for rare disease diagnosis in the region.
27 Feb 2026
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