Bringing palliative care closer to communities

Greetings from Hospice Africa Uganda. This is a brief progress report on HAU highlighting achievements in this quarter December 2022 to February 2023.

In this quarter, we had 233 new patients. About 10% of the new patients were identified in the community while the remaining 90% were referred to HAU from the hospitals. In the same quarter, we had 812 patient encounters on home based care, hospital visits and community outreach clinics. There was a slight decrease of 8% from 887 patient encounters realised in the previous quarter and this was majorly due to the festive season.

Our site in Kampala is committed to identify people in need of Palliative Care services that are living in the down town (slum) areas of Kampala city. The target was to visit the areas that are near to HAU in Makindye and find patients that are not in position to leave their homes and come for care. This was done together with the Community Volunteer Workers (CVWs).

Following a situation analysis, the clinical team started an outreach in Namuwongo-Kisugu slum this March 2023 and will begin one in Katanga at the end of April 2023.

Your contribution is immensely valuable in aiding these accomplishments. By providing your donation, an individual in Africa- Uganda who is suffering from a severe illness can receive essential pain-relieving treatment without any charge. You are truly heroic, and we extend our heartfelt appreciation for your generosity.

To cater for the increasing demand for medical aid to patients with life-threatening illnesses in Uganda, we require additional monthly donors. Kindly spread the word among your colleagues, friends, and family, encouraging them to become heroes by contributing to this noble cause.