A snapshot of the pioneering personalities in the Paediatric Scenario in Sri Lanka
Open Access
|Dec 2016Abstract
The Lady Ridgeway Hospital (LRH) for Children is the premier, exclusively paediatric hospital, in Sri Lanka. It was opened in 1910 and named after the former First Lady, Lina Ridgeway, the wife of the former British Governor of Ceylon, the name used to describe this resplendent island at that time. LRH is now, arguably, the largest Children’s Hospital in the world with a bed strength of over 1100.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4038/sljch.v45i4.8187 | Journal eISSN: 2386-110X
Language: English
Page range: 294 - 296
Published on: Dec 5, 2016
Published by: Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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© 2016 Sanath P Lamabadusuriya, published by Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians
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