Despite the disruptions brought about by the coronavirus restrictions on transport, the Palliative Care Association of Uganda (PCAU) found ways to ensure that it continued to support hospices and palliative care centers to offer the much-needed services to cancer patients.
The Palliative Care Association of Uganda has been hosting weekly online Zoom discussions with the palliative care fraternity in Uganda, with a specific focus on palliative care in the COVID-19 response. The discussions brought together different kinds of people within the palliative care fraternity including...
Meet Morris, 20 years. He is from Hoima district. Moses joined the Road to Hope program in 2014. He was identified by the Palliative Care Nurse in Little Hospice Hoima when he was taking care of his mother who was suffering from cancer. Morris had...
At five years of age, George was caring for his dying father in their one-room mud house. He was responsible for picking medicine refills for his father and for looking for food from friends and well-wishers in the community. After his father died and he...
Annually, PCAU holds a fundraising dinner during December to support a specific standalone hospice work. The dinners are held under the theme of “Scaling up Cancer and other Palliative Care response in remote areas in Uganda”. The resources raised are donated to a selected hospice...
