Palliative Home Care Programme

Traditional Hospice employs 2 part-time Nursing Sisters, who care who care for mainly cancer patients. These patients number on average between 10 and 15 per month.

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.

Our Outreach Programme covers the following specific areas : Mpophomeni , Mevana , Shiaze, Mathandibise and Stock Owners Squatter Camps, rural farms and Howick.

Howick Hospice employs a part-time Social Worker and a full-time Auxillary Social Worker, whose salaries are partly funded by the Department of Social Welfare. This is the only funding which we receive from Government.

To contact Howick Hospice please call or fax
033 330 5257
or
E MAIL: howkhosp@sai.co.za