The University Children’s Hospital Basel (UKBB) is an independent, university-based centre of competence for paediatric and j ... uvenile medicine, as well as for teaching and research. The Children’s Hospital Basel was originally founded on 2 January 1862, when it opened as a new hospital on the banks of the Rhine in Lesser Basel. The hospital continued to grow until 1999, when the UKBB was created from the merging of the Basel Children’s Hospital and the Bruderholz Children’s Clinic. read more