(SHiNE) Child Program
In Uganda, many face life-threatening illnesses without access to palliative care. This Giving Tuesday on 3rd December 2024, join the Palliative Care Association of Uganda (PCAU) to bring comfort, support, and dignity to children facing sickness and vulnerability and their impoverished families.
Since 2016, PCAU Members Annual Get-together Dinner has been a tradition honoring our commitment to palliative care in Uganda. This year’s Silver Jubilee Dinner marks a special milestone as we celebrate 25 years of dedicated service.
Dear PCAU Members and Friends,
Thank you for your continued support of the work of palliative care in Uganda. As we head to the last quarter of 2024, I appreciate your compassion as palliative care providers across Uganda partners and donors.
Access to medical supplies is a major challenge for many economically disadvantaged patients in Uganda. Patients with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses are faced with co-morbidities resulting from the side effects of the medications and disease progression on their journey of care.
The Palliative Care Association of Uganda (PCAU) on 9th July 2024 donated specific essential medical sundries to its member organizations including Little Hospice Hoima, New Life Hospice Arua, Lweza Community Health Programme, SD Cancer and Palliative Care Clinic Jinja, Kitovu Mobile, and Kabale Christian Care.
This year, PCAU celebrates 25 years since its founding in 1999. The organization has been at the forefront of all hospice and palliative care development in Uganda.
The theme for PCAU’s Silver Jubilee is “Celebrating 25 years of extending compassion, holistic care, pain relief, hope, and justice to individuals and families in Uganda”
Thank you for attending the 25th Annual General Meeting (AGM) on May 30, 2024.
We were glad to host you all. We had 174 members and guests at the AGM. We had booked space for only 150 at the Fairway Hotel Kampala, but we are glad we had room for all.
Among the Duruma ethnic group who live in Kenya our neighboring country, they have this proverb:
‘’A small house will hold a hundred friends.’’ We had a full room, yet we enjoyed each other’s company.
The Palliative Care Association of Uganda (PCAU) launched a groundbreaking mobile Health (mHealth) Palliative Care Surveillance program in 2015, initially spanning four health facilities. Utilizing Android smartphones and the Open Data Kit (ODK) application, the initiative aimed to collect aggregated data on palliative care service provision, facilitating informed decision-making, advocacy, research, and policy formulation.
Apart from our commitment to integrating palliative care into Uganda’s Health Care System, the Ministry of Health introduced specialized data collection tools integrated into the Health Management Information System (HMIS). These tools address the limitations of previous indicators, providing invaluable insights for policy formulation, decision-making, and research in palliative care.
How help came to a very sick mother with her seemingly dying baby and her other 2 children:
In 2022, a community volunteer in southwestern Uganda was concerned about the plight of a dying baby with her mother who lived in a small makeshift. The two lived with two other young children in a very impoverished family of four people. The community volunteer approached the palliative care team at Kitagata Hospital for help. The Hospital is located about 3 miles from the village where the venerable family lives.
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