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Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick is a specialist facility for children's health, a paediatric teaching centre and the hub of a network of professionals caring for children throughout Sydney and New South Wales. It provides a comprehensive range of services from the most urgent and essential to the most complex and technologically advanced.
The Surgical Service at Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick cares for children of all ages, from newborns and infants to adolescents. It provides surgical care for children with all different types of conditions, including neonatal surgery of congenital malformations, gastrointestinal tract surgery, laparoscopic and other minimally invasive surgery, surgical oncology, reconstructive and plastic surgery, and burns treatment including grafting and management of burns scars. Surgical procedures are performed on 6000 children every year. Many of these procedures are ongoing and regular surgeries resulting in over 100,000 occasions of service every single year.
The Hospital has an urgent need in their Surgery Department. Currently the Hospital does not operate a full time surgical theatre for children due to lack of equipment and resources. The purchase of essential equipment including a diathermy machine and a new operating table with funds from this year?s Regatta will enable the Hospital to equip a full time operating theatre, the only 24 hour paediatric surgical service available in NSW and will revolutionise the care provided to children.
Without these two vital pieces of equipment the Hospital would not be able to operate their service efficiently and effectively. Our support of the Surgical Department will make an enormous difference to their service and will once again be testament to the outstanding difference the Rotary Charity Regatta has made to the children of NSW.
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