Most people know that pain is uncomfortable and just because one doesn’t see an injury does not mean there is no pain. Physical pain must be controlled before the cause is addressed and treated as pain and suffering are closely related. This was the message to health...

Are you a healthcare professional in a developing country? Would you like to learn more about palliative care? Has planning palliative care for cancer patients proved challenging? ecancer’s free online course on palliative care was designed just for you. This course...

Over 20 health care workers drawn from hospitals in Mount Kenya region completed a five day introduction to palliative care training held in Nyeri with support from Tropical Health and Education Trust. During the training the trainees were subjected to various...

Health care workers from Mount Kenya region kicked off a five day introduction to palliative care training in Nyeri on Monday. Drawn from the clinical field, the doctors, nurses and nutritionists will learn various concepts of palliative care with the aim of...

The Ministry of Health has indicated that palliative care is one of the cancer management interventions that the government is taking more seriously. This was revealed during an ongoing two day Kenya Cancer Research and Control National Stakeholders’ Meeting at...

Caroline Okwemba is a practicing nurse working at Kakamega Provincial General Hospital. Before switching gears to palliative care, she was a general nurse engaged in wound dressing and was partly involved in dental care. In a recent interview with ehospice, M/s....

Mr. James Njagi is 47 years old and a father of six children. He is the sole bread winner hence all family members are wholly dependent on him. He is a person with albinism and because of this, he was rejected by the community including his own relatives. He lives...

Nairobi Hospice held a successful annual charity golf tournament on 2nd May at Karen Country Club.The event which started at round 11am attracted both young and seasoned golfers in teams and individual categories in support of the Hospice to continue offering...

The high number of patients presenting with life threatening illnesses especially cancer in Murang’a County has triggered the District Hospital to move with haste in establishing a palliative care unit to address their plight. Most patients visiting the hospital are...

Msambweni Sub-County Hospital is planning to set up a palliative care unit soon. Leading to this achievement, the hospital team recently visited Coast Hospice to familiarise themselves with operations in a palliative care environment. Coast Hospice Clinical...

Palliative care has not once nor twice, but many times proved beneficial to patients with life threatening illnesses even when it starts at late stages of an illness until their last day. Joy (not her real name) died at the age of 87 years towards the end of March...

Naivasha District Hospital will soon have a unit to accelerate palliative care service delivery in the region after the team received 40gms of morphine, some tools and reading materials from Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association (KEHPCA) alongside furniture...

In the effort of strengthening palliative care in Kenya, Tropical Health & Education Trust (THET) is supporting palliative care experts from University of Edinburgh and other institutions to offer mentorship to palliative care providers in three hospitals namely...

The Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association (KEHPCA)’s 4th National Palliative Care Conference call for abstracts is now open. The Biennial conference taking place from 12th to 14th November 2014 at the Laico Regency Hotel in Nairobi seeks to bring together...

The last two weeks have been busy for Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association (KEHPCA) as the association parked from its office at Chaka Court along Argwings Kodhek Road to unpack at Top Plaza along Kindaruma Road/Kamburu Drive. During the opening ceremony,...