Injecting new life into paediatric care units in public hospitals across the nation, the Carte Blanche Making A Difference Trust has mobilised to help babies and children at Tygerberg Children’s Hospital in the Cape. The handover of a dedicated Newborn and Children’s Operating Theatre took place on the morning of 13 April 2018. Multi-millions was raised to refurbish this unit and to furnish it with essential equipment. This project would not have been possible without the initial generous capital donation from Choice Diamonds.

1. 13 April 2018
The Carte Blanche Making a Difference Trust’s 18th State hospital
project.
TYGERBERG PAEDIATRIC THEATRE HANDOVER

2. Mr Raymond Visagie (Nursing Manager for Tygerberg Operating Theatres)
assisting donors to gown up.

3. Sponsors and representatives from Karl Storz and Polyflor getting into theatre
attire.

4. Initiating our Polyflor donors into getting prepped for theatre.

5. Hendrik Theart (Clinical Engineering Unit Manager, Tygerberg) and Jacques du Preez
(Head of Clinical Engineering, Tygerberg). Carte Blanche Making a Difference Trust’s
champions on the ground, without whom this project would not have been realized.

6. Prof Daniel Sidler: Paediatric Surgeon and Dr Corne de Vos, Consultant
Paediatric Surgeon at Tygerberg Hospital.

7. Making a Difference Trust Patron Karolina Andropoulos, George Mazarakis and
Western Cape Health MEC, Dr Nomafrench Mbombo.

8. Dr Paul Ciapparelli – Tygerberg COO – opens the handover proceedings.

9. Prof Daniel Sidler – Paediatric Surgeon at Tygerberg Hospital – addresses
attendees.

10. “Our paediatric patients will now enjoy state of art treatment in this wonderful facility. We would not
have been able to do so without partnership with the Trust” - Western Cape Health MEC, Dr
Nomafrench Mbombo.

11. Prof Sidler demonstrating new equipment – this tiny finocchietto clamp holds a
new-born's chest open for certain procedures.

12. Hennie Theart demonstrates the endoscopic camera’s functionality in Tygerberg’s first digital
theatre, made possible by the donors of the Making a Difference Trust. Images taken by way of the
scope are displayed on multiple screens.

13. Demonstrating the endoscopic camera and full-screen view in the digital
theatre.

14. Hendrik Theart (Clinical Engineering Dept.) shows Western Cape Health MEC,
Dr Nomafrench Mbombo the new state-of-the-art LED, magnifying headlamps.

15. Western Cape Health MEC, Dr Nomafrench Mbombo cuts the ribbon.

16. Trust Patron Karolina Andropoulos with Dräger’s National Sales Manager
Gerard van Driel, donor and great support.

17. Mannette de Jager - Chairperson TygerBear Trust with Tygerbear Training and
Counselling Centre staff. Mannette’s team has been ever-supportive of Karolina’s work
at the hospital.

18. Donors to the project: Colin Patterson – Spar Western Cape, Bianca Lima –
Blue Label Telecoms and Ross Bannatyne – Spar Western Cape.

19. Donors to the project: Tracy Paulson (Freddy Hirsch), Ally Channon (Anglo American
Chairman’s Fund representative), Chris Coertse (Electrothread).

20. Mannette de Jager - Chairperson TygerBear Trust and facilitator to the Carte Blanche Trust’s project
at Tygerberg. Ian Fortuin – Head of Engineering at Tygerberg. Tygerbery Hospital’s Anthony Peterson.
Anthony selflessly tiled and refurbished many areas of the various operating theatre rooms.

21. Tygerberg’s first digital, dedicated Paediatric Operating Theatre. Image with kind thanks
to © Peter de Jager who documented the project throughout its development.