Children's Cancer Hospital Egypt, also known as 57357 hospital after the hospital's widely published bank account number for donations, is a hospital in Cairo is a hospital specialising in children's cancer. With 320 beds, the building is the largest pediatric oncology hospital in the world.
| Children Cancer Hospital Egypt | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Zeinhom, El-Sayeda Zainab, Cairo Governorate, Egypt |
| Coordinates | 30°01′22″N 31°14′16″E / 30.022715°N 31.237870°E |
| Organisation | |
| Type | Specialist |
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| Beds | 320 |
| Speciality | Children's cancer |
| History | |
| Founded | 2007 |
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| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in Egypt |
Creation
editFundraising for the hospital, including well-attended benefit festivals, started in 1998, with a target date for opening of December 2003. It renamed itself to 57357 for a period after the bank account for donations and carried the name across the many festivals to remind people of how to donate.[1]
The hospital eventually opened in 2007,[2] The building only took up half the allocated plot of land, with the intention of future expansion. Each floor was themed with a different colour, for example, the basement floor was coloured aquamarine and themed with underwater discovery.[2]
The project was funded entirely by donations, including through many small donations and with 90% of the total coming from within Egypt. It works on an "ability-to-pay" basis.[3] One reason that the project was successful is that the Grand Mufti in Egypt had declared that the fundraising campaign would constitute a legitimate zakat.[4]
Facilities
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ↑ "Remember # 57357". Al-Ahram Weekly. 23 October 2003. Archived from the original on 2010-05-17. Retrieved 10 September 2010.
- 1 2 "A voyage of discovery". Al-Ahram Weekly. 14 February 2008. Archived from the original on 2010-10-11. Retrieved 10 September 2010.
- ↑ Report : Egypt 2013. Oxford Business Group. ISBN 9781907065910.
- ↑ Jamili, Dima; Lanteri, Alessandro, eds. (2016). Social entrepreneurship in the Middle East. Volume 1. Springer. ISBN 9781137395368.
- ↑ "IBA to install Africa's first proton therapy center in Egypt". dotmed.com. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
- ↑ Amjad, Suneela. "Children Cancer Hospital Egypt (CCHE) 57357". Global Patient Transfer. Retrieved 19 July 2020.