RED CROSS CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL

Children's Hospital Donate now The Red Cross War Memorial

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he Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital is South Africa’s only dedicated child health institution and offers a comprehensive range of specialist paediatric services to children. It is a centre of excellence for the training of all categories of child health professionals.

 

Children from all nine provinces of South Africa and from all over Africa are referred to the Hospital by referral hospitals, clinics and smaller hospitals. The hospital is active in paediatric outreach and support programmes across South Africa.

 

Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital is regarded as South Africa’s leading centre for postgraduate specialist paediatric medical and surgical training. The hospital’s tertiary facility provides comprehensive dedicated paediatric services with a full range of sub-specialties at quaternary, tertiary and secondary levels of care.

 

Prof. André Brooks is the Head of the Clinical Unit: Cardiothoracic Surgery at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital as well as a cardiothoracic surgeon at Groote Schuur Hospital. He is the undisputed leading authority on paediatric and grown up congenital heart (GUCH surgery in South Africa.

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Weekend Waiting List Project

 

The Weekend Waiting List Initiative has been running as an annual project since 2011. The Initiative was established to address the protracted waiting list by adding an additional day of surgeries (Saturday) to the hospital’s operating schedule. By reducing the large volumes of relatively minor cases, more scope and flexibility is provided for more complex cases to be attended to during the week. The WWL Project has been directly affected by the COVID 19 pandemic since 2020 and it has now become one of the most critical projects at the Hospital. It is estimated that it will take up to 2 years to catchup the additional surgical backlog caused by delays due to COVID.

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BENEFICIARIES

 

All donations we collect get allocated to the great initiatives run by our worthy beneficiaries:

  •  The Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital
    • Weekend Waiting List Project
  • The Christiaan Barnard Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
    • 1000 Hearts initiative
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