 | The factual accuracy of part of this article is disputed. The dispute is about The claim that it is the largest children's hospital in the world is disputed and lacks verification from reliable sources.. (September 2024) |
| Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children (රිජ්වේ ආර්යා ළමා රෝහල லேடி றிஜ்வே சிறுவர் வைத்தியசாலை) | |
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 Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Dr. Denister De Silva Mawatha, Colombo 08, Sri Lanka |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Government |
| Type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university | University of Colombo |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Level I Regional Pediatric Trauma Center |
| Beds | 1232 licensed beds (as of December 2013) |
| Speciality | Pediatrics and pediatric subspecialties |
| History | |
| Opened | 1895 |
| Links | |
| Website | lrh |
| Lists | Hospitals in Sri Lanka |
The Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children is a tertiary care children's hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka. With a bed-strength of over 1200, it is now considered to be the largest children's hospital in the world [citation needed]. Established by public subscription in 1895 as the Lady Havelock Hospital for Women and Children, it was named the Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children in 1910. Both these distinguished ladies were the respective wives of successive British Governors in Ceylon - Sir Arthur Havelock and Sir Joseph West Ridgeway.
Lady Ridgeway Hospital serves as the national referral center for pediatric care for Sri Lanka. It also serves as local pediatric hospital for the population in and around Colombo city for emergency and outpatient care.
All services are free of charge in keeping with the free state health care policy of the Sri Lankan Government.
In July 2021, Sri Lankan cricketer Angelo Mathews announced that he was interested in taking a major responsibility to find donors for a social welfare project titled "Little Hearts" which is also a national fundraising project being initiated in order to build a Cardiac and Critical Care Complex at the LRH hospital.[1][2] He was inspired to get involved with the Little Hearts fundraiser after acknowledging the way the doctors and nurses had treated his daughter who was admitted to LRH hospital.[3]
- ^ "Rohit Sharma backs Angelo Mathew's LRH initiative". NewsWire. 2021-07-28. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
- ^ ""This cause is my life mission" Angelo Mathews makes request on behalf of children". NewsWire. 2021-07-27. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
- ^ "Mathews' first-hand experience at LRCH inspires him to start a fundraising campaign". Daily FT. Retrieved 2021-08-11.