London Chest Hospital

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The London Chest Hospital, located in Bethnal Green in London, adjacent to Victoria Park, is a hospital run by the Barts Health NHS Trust. It was founded in 1848 by Thomas Bevill Peacock, and first opened in 1855.[1]

On 1 April 2010, LCH Radio broadcast its first shows to the hospital's patients. LCH Radio is one of only a few hospital radio stations to broadcast on an FM bandwidth, the first being Radio Lonsdale at Furness General Hospital[2] in Barrow-in-Furness.

Fabrice Muamba, the Zaire native who played for England's Bolton Wanderers, was taken here after suffering a cardiac arrest on the pitch on 17 March 2012; after going without a heartbeat for 78 minutes and being kept anesthetized so he could recover. He has made substantial progress and is now out of hospital, but was forced to retire from football.

References

  1. ↑ "The History of the London Chest Hospital". Barts and the London NHS Trust. Retrieved 2013-05-27. 
  2. ↑ http://radio-lonsdale.co.uk/history/
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