According to an Oct. 15 article on the The Copenhagen Post Online, a hospital in the famed Danish city recently opened a special unit to serve children who have been adopted from other countries.

The primary reason for the new unit in Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet is to provide a more efficient and effective means of providing medical care to children who may be suffering from conditions with which Danish doctors are not familiar:

Children adopted from overseas often bring with them illnesses rarely seen in Denmark.

DR News reports that the new out-patient department will help centralize all the medical knowledge parents of adopted foreign children need.

Freddy Karup Pedersen is a professor in international childrens illnesses and is one of the three doctors running the department.

"We're offering a coordinated effort so adoptive parents dont have to go to 117 different places to find out whats wrong," Pedersen said.

About 400 children are adopted and brought to Denmark each year.

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