[custom_adv] International popstar Madonna opened Malawi’s first-ever pediatric surgery and intensive care center in the African country on Tuesday. The Mercy James Institute for Pediatric Surgery and Intensive Care at the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre was funded by Madonna’s charity, Raising Malawi. [custom_adv] In celebration of the opening of the center, the singer was joined by her son Rocco and her children adopted from Malawi, son David, daughter Mercy James – whom the center is named after – and twins Stella and Esther. [custom_adv] In her speech Madonna said the construction of the children’s unit is a reflection of the motherly love she was longing for when she was a child. [custom_adv] Madonna was welcomed in Malawi on Tuesday (July 11) for the official opening of a hospital children's wing funded by her charity and named after one of the four children the pop star has adopted from the impoverished southern African nation. [custom_adv] The Mercy James Institute for Pediatric Surgery and Intensive Care, located at the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in the city of Blantyre, was built in collaboration with Malawi's health ministry. It has already started some activities, and Madonna said last week that the institute had completed its first surgery. [custom_adv] The four children she adopted from Malawi are David Banda, Mercy James, Stelle and Estere. The children's wing was named after 11-year-old Mercy. [custom_adv] Madonna's charity, Raising Malawi, was founded in 2006 to address the poverty and hardship endured by the country's orphans and other vulnerable children. It has built schools and funded the new pediatric unit, which began construction in 2015 and includes three operating rooms dedicated to children's surgery, a day clinic and a 45-bed ward.