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Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital

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Care system
  
Department of Health

Hospital type
  
Specialist

Phone
  
+27 21 658 5111

Founded
  
1956

Funding
  
Public hospital

Speciality
  
Paediatrics

Number of beds
  
300

Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital

Location
  
Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Affiliated university
  
University of Cape Town, University of the Western Cape, Stellenbosch University

Address
  
Rondebosch, Cape Town, 7700, South Africa

Hours
  
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Affiliated universities
  
University of Cape Town, University of the Western Cape, Stellenbosch University

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Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa was opened in 1956 through public subscription as a memorial to soldiers lost in the Second World War. The suggestion that the memorial take the form of a children's hospital was proposed by Vyvyan U.T. Watson. Mr Watson, a prominent businessman, had lost his first born and only son, Peter Tennant Watson, at about four years old, to an outbreak of diphtheria in Cape Town. Mr Watson was a major force in steering the organization of the building of the hospital. The Peter Pan statue on the Hospital grounds, sculpted by Ivan Mitford-Barberton, was donated by Mr Watson and his wife, Gwendolyn. Mr Watson was later President of the South African Red Cross Society. It is the only dedicated children's hospital in sub-Saharan Africa, and one of only a few dedicated children's hospitals in the Southern hemisphere.

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The hospital has academic links to the University of Cape Town's School of Child and Adolescent Health, the University of the Western Cape Dental School and the University of Stellenbosch; it is regarded as South Africa's leading centre for post-graduate specialist paediatric medical and surgical training.

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Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital Wikipedia