HOSPICE HOWICK

We have an active team of very dedicated Bereavement Counsellors who are available to give help and counselling to the families of Hospice patients for up to a year after the death of the patient. Our Outreach Programme which started in 1997 with a handful of patients now has approximately 400 patients (mostly HIV/Aids). The Outreach patients are looked after by 4 fulltime Nursing Sisters and 21 Community Workers. The patients are visited and nursed in their own homes, and we have a drop-in centre in Mpophomeni and Lidgetton which form central points in the rural areas from where ambulant patients may collect their medicines and food parcels. Weekly clinics for both adult patients and children are also held at each drop-in centre.