Training community Health Care Workers (HCWs) is a great way of ensuring patients with life threatening illnesses access palliative care at home. When a person gets ill, s/he goes to hospital and when discharged the patient returns home to his/er family members and...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published the new editions of the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for Adults and for Children. The new editions of the model lists include several changes, two of which are very important for the field of palliative care:...
Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association (KEHPCA) was host to the Chief Nursing Officer of Malawi’s Ministry of Health Mrs. Immaculate Kambiya for a week, during her 3 week clinical placement in Kenya. Pursuing a post graduate degree in palliative care, her 3...
The Church of God Newtouwards in Ireland donated 50 solar lamps each worth KES 5000 to 50 homes in Meru through Meru Hospice. The solar lamps were donated to the palliative care patients at the hospice and to the needy in the surrounding community. Visiting from the...
Statistics indicate that 63% of oncology staff suffer from stress and depression in their day to day service delivery in the health sector. This depression is caused by burnouts due to heavy workload, fatigue, constant exposure to suffering patients, and trauma during...
Oxford Brookes University (OBU) has awarded an Honorary Doctorate (HonDUniv) to Dr Zipporah Ali, Executive Director of Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association (KEHPCA) in a graduation ceremony held at the university in the UK. She was among six leading figures...
