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Free online course to improve palliative care
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...
Training more health care workers to enhance palliative care
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...
Palliative care training for Health Care Workers underway in Nyeri
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...
Ministry of Health takes Integration of Palliative care more seriously
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...
Spinning the palliative care wheel at Kakamega Hospital
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....
Abandoned by relatives but helped by Chogoria Hospital palliative care team
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...