By Ken Cornetta | Project Leader
Jambo !
This is the first report for the Providing Palliative Care in Kenya project. We are a partnership between the dedicated palliative care physicians, clinical officers, nurses and social workers in Eldoret Kenya and the Indiana Institute for Global Health. Our work continues to focus on symptom control, particularly pain management for patients with life limiting diseases. The team provides hands-on care in the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital as well as our palliative care clinic.
Our current challenge is to move beyond our clinics and hospital and provide support when patients return home. When patients leave the hospital, they often return to remote areas with little or no medical services. Even when services are available, medical personnel lack experience with pain and symptom control as patients near the end of life. Our team has been providing limited support through a 24-hour hotline but a more proactive management of symptoms and family support is needed. The support provided through Providing Palliative Care in Kenya is being used to develop telephone monitoring and treatment for our patients. Our ultimate goal is to use telecommunication as a novel means of delivering hospice care to individuals in remote areas.
Your support means so much to our team and inspires us to continue this challenging work. Please accept our deepest thanks.
Sincerely
The Palliative Care Team
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