By 1992 the bed capacity had increased to 76 with a paediatric ward, a VIP wing and an acute care unit.

The hospital consists of a female ward, paediatric ward, male ward, labour ward, OPD, operation room, dispensary, laboratory and kitchen.

The 229-bed hospital has an emergency department, operating theatres, and medical, surgical and paediatric wards.

You want to try living on a paediatric ward for a few months.

Two new paediatric wards were constructed in 1997 and the number of beds increased from 50 to 90.

Her father and I spent seven days and nights on the paediatric ward, taking it in turns to sleep next to her in the narrow pull-down bed.

In 1865 he became director of the Civil Hospital of Palermo and he also founded a paediatric ward and antiseptic operating room, one of the first to follow Joseph Lister's theories.

In 1918, during an outbreak of Spanish influenza in the Wilmington area, Handy was asked by the Board of Health to open a paediatric ward at People's Settlement staffed by volunteers and with very little equipment.

The days have long gone since paediatric wards were filled with children acutely ill with one of the major infectious illnesses - pneumonia, meningitis, polio and the like.

The story begins in early 1981 with the deaths of 46 child patients, most of them in the hospital's paediatric cardiac wards.