New Partnership Announced

Hospice of the North Coast’s Global Partnership with Nkhoma Hospital of Nkhoma, Malawi

Global Partners in Care is pleased to announce a new partnership between Hospice of the North Coast and Nikhoma Hospital of Nkhoma, Malawi in an effort to expand access to palliative care.

Sharon Lutz, Executive Director at HNC expresses why it was so important to partner with Nkhoma Hospital.

During my very first trip to Malawi in 2007, I was very impressed with the resourcefulness of the people. The devastation of HIV was so evident but the people did not speak as if they had little hope. If parents had died from AIDS the older children or cousins were raising the younger children. Everywhere you looked young girls, ages 8 to 12, were carrying their siblings on their backs as they worked or walked to the market place.

The ability to accept life as it came was amazing.

The hospital staff had so little in the way of medical supplies and medications and yet they made due.

I hope that through the resourcefulness of the Nkhoma hospital staff and the developing palliative team we can problem solve together. Their creativity in managing symptoms will be a learning experience for HNC.”

Read Newsletter from: Global-Partnership-2015, from Global Partners in Care.