The ministry of health has provided funding for the purchase of morphine to enhance palliative care among patients with life limiting illnesses. Speaking after a three-day training for pharmacists on palliative care, the Senior Deputy Chief Pharmacist in the Ministry...
Paralegals and health care workers from various parts of the country convened in Nairobi for a training as paralegals to offer legal support to patients and family members having problems associated with life threatening illness. The three day training for paralegal...
Dr Esther Cege Munyoro, head of the Palliative Care Unit at Kenyatta National Referral Hospital (KNH) and Dr Zipporah Ali of Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association (KEHPCA) were among participants at the recently held AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly which was held...
Over 35 health care providers attended a one day palliative care sensitization meeting organized by Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association (KEHPCA) and Nyeri Provincial General Hospital (PGH) under the Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET) project....
In a new field such as palliative care nursing in Kenya, mentorship is vital where such professional practice is evolving with few senior leaders to serve as role models. Most nurses learn how to handle patients under medical terms and hygiene but detailed care beyond...
Medical training has for the longest time forgotten incorporating palliative care in its courses despite there being a patient in need of palliative care services at any one given time in most hospitals in Kenya. This was said by Kangundo District Hospital Medical...
