Msambweni Sub-County Hospital to introduce palliative care

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...

Supporting a patient to the last day; a story from Chogoria PCU

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 Hospital to accelerate palliative care

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...

UK mentors support Kenyan palliative care providers

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...

Call for Abstracts now open for KEHPCA Conference

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...

KEHPCA moves into new office

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,...
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