South Africa has released their Red Cross stamps today, June 15 2006, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital. There is also a special canceller and a commemorative envelope issued.
These stamps carry the standard and an international letter rate value. The standard postage stamp design is of the hospital building, while the international letter rate stamp shows a nursing sister caring for a young patient.
The Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital was first established in 1956 and is the only specialist hospital dedicated entirely to children in the sub-Saharan part of Africa. Over the past fifty years thousands of children have received treatment at this facility. Today the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital offers specialized treatment to more than 250 000 children every year.
As well as the large role this hospital has played, there have been many achievements by the hospital in South Africa:
• First open heart surgery on a child • First liver transplantation on a child • First liver and kidney transplant in a single child • First living related liver transplant • First separation of conjoined twins • First paediatric Poison Information Centre • First children’s Cancer Unit • First transplant cultured skin on a burn patient • First neonatal Intensive Care Unit • First child heart transplant • First and only Paediatric Neuro Surgery Programme.
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