Red Cross Children’s Hospital welcomes R250k donation for cancer unit
The fight against child cancer received a massive cash boost this week when just over a quarter of a million rand was handed over to the Children’s Hospital Trust for the Upgrade of the Oncology Unit at Red Cross Children’s Hospital.
Built in Cape Town in 1956, the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital is the first stand-alone tertiary hospital in Sub-Saharan Africa dedicated entirely to child healthcare.
“We invited our customers to help us with our fundraising drive for Red Cross over the last two months and I am blown away by the support we received. A percentage of every bed we sold was collected for this purpose, and it helped us reach the total of R253 829,” says Mervyn Ewertse, founder of the independent sleep specialist group Bed King.
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