Corridors and walls in the wards have been painted with murals of African folklore and children playing. The landscaping around the hospital aims to promote nature and play.
The poor will not have to pay for treatments, according to the hospital trust. Construction of the hospital was funded largely through donations from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Islamic Relief Worldwide and the Kellogg Foundation, said the trust. Specialist doctors from Canada’s Hospital for Sick Children and Johns Hopkins Medicine International in the U.S. will be among those working at the hospital.
The hospital will be South Africa’s second for children after the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in Cape Town. There are also two children’s hospitals in Egypt and one in Kenya.
Mandela, who became South Africa’s first Black president in 1994, died at the age of 95 on Dec. 5, 2013.
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