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Blueprint for Innovative Healthcare Access Kanyakine Hospital Meru County
With Merus County population facing a growing burden of NCDs amongst an increasingly expanding adult population, Kanyakine Sub-County Hospital located in Imenti South Sub- County is amongst health facilities in Meru County to benefit from the Blueprint for Innovative...
Maua Methodist Hospital Palliative Care Unit – Meru County
KEHPCA is encouraging Maua Methodist Hospital to continue to shine and strive to be a center of excellence in palliative care. Maua Methodist Hospital has been in the forefront in provision of Palliative Care (PC) in Meru County since 2002. A team of two; Dr. Claire...
Improving quality of life for persons in need of Palliative Care at Nyambene Sub-County Hospital
Effective provision of palliative care services requires a dedicated workforce, an enabling environment that includes support from the facility administration and the essential palliative care medicines and equipment. That is what you find at the Nyambene Sub-County...
Tales of Care givers
More often than not, care is given to Persons Living with Palliative Care Needs and we forget about their Care givers and close family members & the community are left with the huge burden of being Caregivers. This leaves them financially, emotionally and mentally...
Kenya’s First Nurse to Attain a PhD in Palliative Care – Dr. Jostine Mutinda
It was joy and jubilation for 5171 graduands as JKUAT marked her 37th graduation ceremony that saw the conferment of degrees and award of diplomas by the Chancellor, Prof. Joseph Ndung’u. The ceremony that witnessed 56 PhD graduates conferred degrees was special...
New policy to boost uptake of palliative care
For a long time, palliative care has been associated with cancer patients, but this is now changing. Patients with other long-term critical illnesses are taking up these services. Palliative care is the support patients receive with the active, progressive,...
Launch of The Kenyan Palliative Care Policy by Her Excellency Margaret Kenyatta
In Kenya, the development of palliative care has come a long way since the first palliative care centre opened its doors in 1990. Nairobi Hospice, a member of the Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association, has been spearheading the provision of palliative care...
“I used to think hospice care or palliative care was for cancer patients only.”
“I used to think hospice care or palliative care was for cancer patients only.” Said Clare Akinyi. There is a wide misconception about palliative care. Some people have not heard of it. For some who have heard about it, they believe it is meant for cancer patients...
New Kid on the block
Makindu Palliative Care Unit (PCU) is currently the new PCU in Kenya. Makindu hospital is located off the Nairobi - Mombassa Highway, in Makueni County. The unit was opened on 22nd February 2021 to serve patients with palliative care needs. “The official launch will...
Psychological Support in Palliative Care
Psychological health and support are important in every stage and season in life but more so in Persons Living with Palliative Care Needs (PLWPCNs). It is important that psychological care is provided to PLWPCNs and their families. This can be done through a range of...
Mother with cancer opts to give up kids
Inside a room marked nine, a fading figure inscribed on the door of a tiny single-roomed house in Mukuru Kwa Njenga slum, is a woman facing the hardest decision of her life. She is battling cervical cancer and has no close family to take care of her. The disease is...
Economic and Social Consequences of Cancer in Kenya
“We need to enhance Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Let’s enhance more resources especially in palliative care.” H.E Hon. Prof. Anyang’ Nyong’o Governor for Kisumu County. Palliative Care is critical in the role of global cancer care although many people living in...
Palliative Care Saved my Life
Although a misunderstood aspect of healthcare, it became a lifesaver for Perpetua Ngumi and Florence Nyambura, and experts now urge more Kenyans to consider it. When Perpetua Ngumi was diagnosed with stage 3B cervical cancer in 2004, she never thought there...
ANOTHER CELEBRATION FOR MERU PALLIATIVE CARE CHAMPIONS
The wise old saying by Leo Buscaglia confirms the true reality of making palliative care dream come true in other sub-county hospitals in Meru. “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the...
PPEs are Important for Health Care Workers in the Fight against COVID-19
“Kilifi County Referral Hospital has received PPE. Thank you KEHPCA for your continued support.” Those are some of the words that keep us going at Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association (KEHPCA). They give us a reason to wake up every morning to do what we do....