The National Children's Hospital
In 1821 a number of eminent Dublin doctors, concerned with the lack of treatment available for sick children in the city, founded the National Children's Hospital.
It was the first hospital devoted exclusively to the care and treatment of sick children in Ireland and Great Britain. Indeed one of the hospitals early students, Dr. Charles West, returned to London and founded Great Ormond St. Hospital in 1852.
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