Hospice grateful for bowling club’s donation

Khanya Hospice staff are grateful for a donation of sandwiches from Toti Bowling Club members that will help the free palliative nursing care it offers.
We really Thank you for your kind donation – this will certainly make a difference in the lives of our patients. Thank you, it was greatly appreciated.
We cannot compromise or let our nursing care suffer because we lack provisions, said Neil. We are always trying our best to fulfil the needs of our patients and in many cases, they need food before they can take their medication.
Our nurses have to ensure every patient and his or her family is not going without food or any item that they need.
We very often find patients or households with hardly any or no food. We cannot give a patient medication if they have not eaten.
Although we not a feeding scheme, we make an special effort to make sure people have food and toiletries.
This is where your sandwiches made all the difference to our patients.
Our nursing staff often find there are just no essentials like toothpaste, hand soap and body lotion, toothbrushes, hair or body shampoo, face cloths, wound care products, adult nappies or sleep wear.
Because of skin infections, people cannot share a cake of soap, they need to use their own soap and our nurses also need to use waterless hand cleaner, antiseptic and de-germ products to care for themselves.
Our nursing staff cannot use the patients’ towels or face clothes, so we have to carry our own.
Patients need painkillers and some suffer from various infections and just don’t have transport or money to go hospital or the clinic, which is often very far from their homes.
Some are just too sick to get to the taxi route and they don’t have the necessary medication to help them get better.
There are lots of challenges in the rural areas that we serve. However, our staff knows we can and do make a difference in the lives of sick people and that’s why I often call our nurses ‘angels’.”
They don’t complain when they have to carry all donated items to the needy households, sometimes 2km or 3km in the rural areas.
To donate, contact Hospice on 039-973-1783 0r 083-597-8985 or email manager@khanyahospice.org.za.
Volunteers are welcome to join Hospice and help with computers, building and maintenance work, garden work or in any of its three shops.