Through your kindness, we reached all our fundraising goals raise which include raising funds for the building of Victoria Hospital’s Paediatric Outpatient Department; decreasing the elective surgeries backlog by doing Saturday surgeries for children with the Weekend Waiting List programme. We helped care for little patients and their families by providing them with the emergency resource materials they needed through our Family Care Project. Soon we will be opening four Therapeutic Playground areas at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital.
Our latest project, the 30-bed Orthopaedic Unit project at Red Cross Children’s Hospital, needs the same love, generosity, and commitment to help orthopaedic patients thrive. We need to raise R100 million over the next two years.
The good news is that we have already raised
R22,6 million.
“Once you have experienced the joy of a child who can walk for the first time because they had well-timed tendon surgery, or the teenage boy that can exchange his Kaye-walker for a single crutch, or the mother who can carry her child on her back after an adductor release, you will not need much more convincing to support this project.”
Dr Anria Horn orthopaedic surgeon at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital
Whether it’s a fractured bone due to an accident or a growth abnormality, many parents seek help from the orthopaedic department, which focuses on bone or joint problems, to heal their little ones. The orthopaedic service at the Children’s Hospital provides surgical and non-surgical care, including children’s rehabilitation. Currently, this specialised service is scattered across various departments within the Hospital and at an off-site facility.
With a new Orthopaedic Unit, patients will have access to a multidisciplinary team comprised of surgeons, nurturing nurses, physiotherapists, dieticians, and occupational therapists during one visit, saving their parents time and travel money.
