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Paediatric Airway Surgery Training

Red Cross Children's Hospital has a state of the art surgical skills laboratory that facilitates one on one subspecialist training of paediatric airway reconstructive surgery.

Paediatric Otology

Red Cross Children's Hospital is a training environment that provides advanced specialist otological surgery for a number of ear conditions to treat the spectrum of chronic otitis media including cholesteatoma, and hearing loss.

Paediatric ENT Surgery Outpatients Department

The Division of Paediatric Otolaryngology manages a variety of ear, nose, throat, airway, and head and neck conditions. For more information or to refer a child with a complex ENT condition, please contact us.

Paediatric ENT Fellowship

Dr Buhle Hlomani completed the Paediatric ENT Fellowship at the University of Cape Town and Red Cross Children's Hospital in December 2021, to start a practise as the first Paediatric ENT Specialist in Namibia

The Division of Paediatric Otolaryngology is based at Red Cross Children's Hospital & comprises the Centre for Advanced Paediatric ENT (CAPE).

Clinical services include a busy outpatients' department and elective operating theatre lists.

We manage children with complex ear, nose, throat, airway and head and neck conditions as well as complex children with regular ear, nose and throat, airway, and head and neck conditions.

We are inclusive of a multi-disciplinary tracheostomy service called Breatheasy (R)

Our paediatric division forms part of the larger, highly specialised Division of Otolaryngology, and Groote Schuur Hospital. During their training, ENT registrars complete their paediatric rotation at Red Cross Children's Hospital.

We are affiliated to PENTAFRICA (Paediatric ENT Society in Africa).

Centre for Advanced Paediatric ENT (CAPE)

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