Hospital To Honour Vichai

Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha

Two new intensive care units at Leicester Children’s Hospital are to be named after Leicester City’s late chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.

The tribute has been made by the Leicester Hospitals Charity, in recognition of the £2 million donation he made towards their appeal, following the club’s historic Premier League title win in 2016.

The announcement comes just days before the first anniversary of the helicopter crash at the King Power Stadium, that killed him and four others.

Both the Children’s Intensive Care Unit and the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Leicester Royal Infirmary will be designated ‘The Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha Children’s Intensive Care Unit’.

The new units will be part of an ambitious plan to create the East Midlands’s first dedicated children’s hospital where all children’s services will be located under one roof.