'Every child deserves to be a child', says CEO

Extra funding will allow the project to do staff training and address capacity constraints, to develop the online training and compile clinical guidelines and referral pathways for child protection cases.

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Dr Fatima Khan, the Child Protection Improvement project coordinator at the children's hospital says the hospital is only seeing the tip of the iceberg.

"We don't see the children who are fatally injured or those grazed by a bullet or who have seen a family member killed and must live with the psychological impact of that," she says.

Dr Khan says many child victims of abuse, neglect, or violence who are brought to the hospital for treatment have to deal with far deeper internal wounds.