Gambia…. It is the smallest country on the African continental mainland.
Just one organisation provides palliative care services in the Gambia, Future Care Hospice .
The need for the establishment of Future Care Hospice was born out of our hearts for people living with HIV/AIDS, CANCER, MALARIA, STROKE, and other terminal diseases….. TERMINAL DISEASES.
Future Care Hospice was officially registered as a charitable organization on Oct 2004 and started with a home care service with four nurses, one chaplain, five auxiliary nurses and three voluntary workers. Two nurses have since left due to lack of funds to pay for their salaries.
The program includes symptom control, domiciliary care and prevention advice for all sectors of the society who have advanced disease. Objectives of the program are to embark on training nurses to be highly professional and to support the Government effort in the provision of vital preventive and curative drugs for incurable conditions. Future Care Hospice needs financial assistance to further train personnel, expand their hospital services and improve the availability of drugs in order to provide good palliative care. The well being of the people of The Gambia, particularly those with HIV/AIDS and cancer, is dependent on receiving outside help.
In The Gambia, patients with limiting diseases prefer to be at home with their families and not continue with the treatment. They only wait the end of their life.
With this mind Future Care Hospice brings palliative and supportive care of all those people, and we need to construct a Hospice Center, where patients will be well cared, observing the international standards in this regards.
Future Care Hospice brings supportive financial care to the families bereaved of patients with terminal illness.
At this time we are working with the minimum conditions.
We are currently raising funds for medicines, stationery, medical equipment, and to set up The Hospice Center that will bring Palliative Care to all those terminal patients.
Thank you for showing interest in this project. Please help us make this dream come true!!!!!
WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!!!!!!