YOUNG mother Omphile Kole this week travelled from Taung in the North West to Soweto for her two-month-old child’s bloated‚ bleeding stomach to be treated.During the little one’s stay at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital‚ Kole has slept in a separate facility away from her daughter.But soon parents like Kole‚ 21‚ will be able to spend the night by their children’s sick beds with the launch of a new paediatric surgery clinic‚ to be built in the coming year.The clinic is believed to be the first public facility in SA to accommodate parents for sleep-overs with their children.The Gauteng Department of Health‚ pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and non-profit organisation Surgeons for Little Lives have collaborated to bring the clinic to life.The hospital’s current paediatric surgery clinic draws people from across sub-Saharan Africa — a catchment area of 10-million people.Professor Jerome Loveland of Surgeons for Little Lives said the facility will serve families l...
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