I whole-heartedly agree that the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital has done outstanding work over many years, but it was not the first in South Africa and is now not the only stand-alone children's hospital (See Red Cross Children’s Hospital celebrates 70 years). The Transvaal War Memorial Children's Hospital (TWMCH) in Johannesburg was built after the first world war in the early 1920s and functioned as such until 30 June 1978 when it moved to block 2 of the new Johannesburg Hospital (later named The Charlotte Maxeke Johanneburg Academic Hospital). The old TWMCH became the Transvaal Memorial Institute. The planning for a new stand-alone children's hospital in Johannesburg began in 2007, and it took 10 years for the Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital to become adequately functional, and it is now hopefully beginning to fulfil the great man's dream.
Professor Peter D Thomson