Over 100 participants turned up and 7am on the final day of the KEHPCA palliative care conference to attend a workshop on children’s palliative care. The workshop, facilitated by ICPCN’s Director of Education and Research, prof Julia Downing, focused on understanding...
“Compassion is the emotion of empathy that one feels in response to the suffering of others that motivates help.” Professor Dr. Anne Merriman founder of Hospice Africa Uganda and a Nobel peace prize nominee started her talk on the value of compassion to palliative...
Meru County Referral hospital is among the hospitals that have integrated palliative care services. There is a unit within the hospital that has a nurse stationed to coordinate palliative care to outpatients and the ones admitted in the wards. Stella Kathambi (head of...
Raising funds has in most cases been a monotonous serious event. Hope for Cancer Kids (HCK) however opted for a fun packed activity involving a win- win situation, paying for a delicacy (a cake) while you help raise funds for a child suffering from cancer. What better...
Hospice management teams from across the country met in Nairobi for a leadership and governance workshop to deliberate on how to strengthen the organisations that they lead. With facilitation from the Country Director of University Research Co., LLC-Center for Human...
The second class of trainees from various health care institutions have completed the 1st face-face class of Diploma in Higher Education in Palliative Care training at Kenya Medical Training College.Supported by the Nursing Council of Kenya (NCK), Kenya Hospices and...
