Kisumu Hospice
The Kisumu Hospice, registered in December 1996 by the NGO Coordinating Bureau, has been providing home care and support to the terminally ill since September 1998. It operates throughout the Nyanza, Rift Valley and Western Provinces in Kenya. To date, around 1,000 patients have been cared for. The patients are referred by doctors in public and private hospitals and clinics from all over western Kenya. Some are referred from the rest of the country and a few from neighbouring Tanzania and Uganda.
Kisumu hospice has extended its work to Siaya. In this it is helped by the vehicle shown above which was partly financed by HCK.
Under the leadership of Dr Onyango an ambitious scheme to train local health professionals is being set up, again using funds provided by HCK. This scheme will be watched with great interest by other providers of palliative care as it offers a way of considerably extending the work .