{"id":45097,"date":"2023-11-17T13:16:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T11:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/celebrating-national-childrens-day-20231115\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T13:33:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T11:33:27","slug":"celebrating-national-childrens-day-20231115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/celebrating-national-childrens-day-20231115\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating National Children\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Children had an absolute blast on November 2 when Buddy Bear joined Uitenhage Provincial Hospital for their National Children\u2019s Day celebrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They were also joined by Mrs Eastern Cape 2023 Christie-Leigh Gouws, her grandmother Judy and two sons, Mason and Gabri\u00ebl. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Uitenhage Provincial Hospital clinical support team pulled out all the stops in organising and setting everything up to spoil the kids on their special 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