Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children

The Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children is a tertiary care children's hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka. t has a bed-strength of over 1200. 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. 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.

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