In total, every year, the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital treats approximately 6,200 children for burns. 98% of these are from disadvantaged communities.

The Burns Unit at the hospital is the only specialised paediatric burns unit in Africa.

The hospital not only cares for children but serves as training ground for students and pediatricians coming from the entire region of the sub-Saharan Africa.

Renal patient Limile Tsodo with Quercus Founder, Diego Biasi, in the Paediatric ICU at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital.

Limile Tsodo was born with kidney dysplasia and is in need of a kidney transplant.

We are pleased to announce that Limile recently went home on mask assisted ventilation after 105 days in hospital and he awaits news on an available kidney.

Every year, the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital cares for 43,200 newborn babies who are ill or born prematurely.

Currently the Paediatric ICU at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital does not have isolation cubicles or an area for neonates.

A neonate clutches his mother’s hand in the Paediatric ICU at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital. They desperately need incubators to regulate their body temperature.

The Quercus Foundation is committed to raising £1.8 million for the Surgical Wing of the Red Cross Memorial Children’s Hospital’s Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) by December 2017. The proposed redevelopment is part of a four-phase re-construction of the PICU.