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Hospices worldwide
Mother of Mercy Hospice in Chilanga, Zambia
This small hospice works in a rural area where HIV affects one in three people. The
hospice provides home-based care as well as inpatient care, and help for orphans'
education and support. The hospice also plans to open a small training centre for carers.
Hospice Uganda
It is barely ten years since Hospice Uganda was established but in that short time its
pioneering work has had enormous impact on the country. The hospice provides
substantial training for health professionals and carers, both from Uganda and from
other neighbouring countries, and was instrumental in helping the Ugandan government
adopt a national palliative care strategy. Hospice Uganda was recently awarded a grant
by The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund which will enable them to develop a
distance learning diploma at Makerere University, Kampala.
The Nilambur Palliative Care Clinic, Southern India
Lack of resources is a major hindrance to the development of palliative care in the third
world. But the community of Nilambur do not let poverty get in the way of their
willingness to help their colleagues. The outpatient clinic and home visiting programme
for over 400 patients is funded by contributions from 1 000 local families and shop
owners, most of them very poor themselves. Each family contributes a rupee a day. The
two-day outpatient clinic and home care service are also supported liberally by
volunteers from the community who are mostly manual labourers who take time off from
their regular work to spend time with the palliative care team.
Hospice Casa Sperantei, Brasov, Romania
The first hospice team in Romania began delivering home care to the people of Brasov
in 1992 and has provided education and training for health professionals since 1997.
The hospice was awarded a grant from the Soros Foundation and was designated a
Regional Resource Centre for Palliative Care for south eastern Europe. They held the
First Balkan Conference on Palliative Care in June 2001 creating a supportive network
for delegates from Albania, Moldovia, Macedonia, Malta, Romania, Ukraine and
Yugoslavia. In May 2002 they will open their inpatient hospice for adults and children.
Hospice Palium, Poznan, Poland
This message from Professor Jacek Luczak, Chairman of the Polish National
Hospice/Palliative Care Council, celebrates the opening of a new hospice and also
underlines the importance of sharing information and experience.
"I have great pleasure to announce that after many years of efforts we have finally
opened Hospice Palium at Osidele Rusa in Poznan, with its bigger inpatient ward of
much better quality, with its Palliative Care Resource and Training Centre. We are
offering a service to the people of Poznan and the region in terms of multidisciplinary
palliative care, we also want to serve palliative care professionals from our region of the
world, offering them education and training, while learning from their experiences at the
same time.
I must admit that our Hospice would not come into being without all the help, all the
friendship that we were continuously receiving from all of our friends in Poland and
abroad. Please remember that in this Hospice we shall also be using the things that you
gave us, the skills that you taught us here, we want you to know that we keep thinking
about you and that you are in our hearts."
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