Zululand Hospice continues to serve communities
Hospice is a movement represented across the globe that believes that every person with a life threatening condition has the right to quality of life and dignity in death
Hospice Week highlights the role of partnership in providing support and care for people with life-threatening illnesses.
The activities of this week seek to recognise, share and celebrate the achievements of Hospice and palliative care programmes with their partners.
Locally, Zululand Hospice which is based in Empangeni and Richards Bay and is a non profit organisation and non governmental organisation (PBO NO 130001345 | NPO NO 004-135) that relies 100% on donations to offer services to the community of the City of uMhlathuze.
Hospice Week, commemorated from 6 to 13 May, highlights the importance of an effective partnership between family members, carers, service providers, funders, government departments and other stakeholders as vital to the provision of quality care.
Services offered by Zululand Hospice
•Palliative Home Based Care
Their model of care is based on the aim of empowering and equipping the family to manage the care of their loved one in the home for as long as possible and to prepare for the end of life.
Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual.
•Medical equipment for hire
The rental of medical equipment allows patients and families the use of much needed equipment to which they would not otherwise have access.
For details on availability and cost of medical equipment call Zululand Hospice – 035 7724910
•Training
In-service training is ongoing to our own staff. Periodically, external professionals will conduct in-service training.
Zululand Hospice Association offers a five-day certified training course which is only hosted twice per year.: once in March and once in August.
Applications for the course in August must be submitted in July.
The course is presented by Sr Jane Ashburner, a Palliative Care Trained Professional.
•Charity Shop
Where anything and everything is for sale.
Zululand Hospice raises funds to support their patients by selling items that are generously donated by the community.
Clothing, books, shoes, linen, household goods, toys, electrical appliances, furniture, kitchenware, CD’s, musical instruments, sporting equipment, bric-a-brac, etc can all be found at their Hospice Charity Shop.
The community can deliver donations to the Zululand Hospice Charity Shop at 18 Turnbull Street, Empangeni.
For more information contact 035 7724910 or email: manager@zululandhospice.org.za
HAVE YOUR SAY
Like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter.
For news straight to your phone invite us:
WhatsApp – 072 069 4169
Instagram – zululand_observer
