By Ken Cornetta | Project Leader
As 2018 winds down it gives us time to look back. For the AMPATH Palliative Care Program it has been a year of progress. The number of patients served continues to increase due to the hard work of the Kenyan Palliative Care team in Eldoret. To lend a hand, we have had an unprecedented number of new North American physicians spending time with the team. Education has been a major focus of our recent visits, both jointly managing hospitalized patients with the palliative care team and conducting training for hospital nurses and physicians. Our most exciting work was on the development of a one-year curriculum for the first palliative care training program in Eldoret. Currently, most trainees travel to Uganda since there is no comprehensive clinical training program in Kenya. The one we have proposed will combine didactic lectures and clinical rotations in hospital palliative care with outpatient and inpatient hospice. The proposal is now going through the review process by the Kenyan educational authorities with the goal of the first class enrolling in 2019.
Your contributions are greatly appreciated and they have the potential to provide an even greater impact. Our students will need assistance in books and other educational materials. Please consider donating to our program as 2018 comes to an end and the promise of the New Year approaches.
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