TOGETHER WE CARE!

Hospice Tororo provides affordable palliative care to patients with HIV/AIDS CANCER and any other chronic diseases in Eastern Uganda. We offer and operate hospice and palliative care services that foster end of life education. The objective is to breaking down communication barriers on cancer and HIV/AIDS and other terminal illness

THE RENAISSANCE

Hospice Tororo a non-governmental organization, that was founded in December 2011 and was fully established in January 2012.

Hospice Tororo focus is to provide quality and culturly appropriate palliative and end of life care especially to those patients with chronic illnesses like cancer, HIV/AIDS at its advanced stages. Hospice offers its services to the eastern region of Uganda like Manafwa, Mbale, Busia, Butaleja, Malaba etc. We are home based care, community based care

Models of Hospice Tororo Palliative Care

VISION

OUR MISSION

OUR OBJECTIVES

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1.Identify new patients in the community and connect them to hospice Tororo.
2. Reduce the distance in services from Hospice Tororo to the patients in the community.
3.Keep contact with enrolled patients to know how they are doing and to communicate this
with Hospice Tororo.
4. Assist the patients and families with basic care and support.
5.Assist the medical and psychosocial teams in providing their services.
6.Sensitize communities and create awareness through education and by providing information about palliative care and Hospice Tororo.
7.Actively participate in reducing stigma’s in the communities and isolation of patients.

To operate an affordable hospice and palliative care services in the Eastern Uganda community and to enhance end of life education, information exchange and dialogue with the main objective of breaking down communication barriers on HIV/AIDS; plus promote accessing information that eases the burden of pain, death and dying.

HOW DO WE HELP THEM?

The team of Hospice Tororo listens, nurses and cares for the patients and their relatives. We care without differentiating in gender, age, and ethnicity, social and religious background. We are there for all patients in need, because every life counts!

Our work of caring and supporting patients with progressive and advanced terminal illnesses and their families has continued to keep us busy as patients and their families have continued to receive a continuum of care spanning from clinical, psychosocial and spiritual care in order to promote quality of life and dignity in the face of such illnesses.The team of Hospice Tororo listens, nurses and cares for the patients and their relatives. We care without differentiating in gender, age, and ethnicity, social and religious background. We are there for all patients in need, because every life counts!

ABOUT US

Hospice Tororo provides, for patients with life-limiting diseases, such as AIDS and Cancer and their relatives, palliative care. In our palliative care services we provide medical care, counselling, psycho-social support and spiritual care. Our aim is to improve the quality of life of our patients and to give them a worthy end of their life. To provide the total care our patients need, we collaborate with many public organizations and the Ugandan government

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WHAT WE DO

IN THE NEWS

Hospice Tororo opened doors to see patients in January 2012 with palliative care services at home, in the communities and in hospitals in the Eastern region of Uganda. We also offer end-of-life education and training to both health professionals and community workers. Hospice Tororo is as NGO registered in Uganda, and is a project of ‘Wings of Hope Ministries 1982’.

We are a Non-Govermenget Organzation

registered in Uganda to

Provide Hospcie and Palliative care servies

in Eastern Uganda.

OUR HISTORY

WHO WE ARE

‘YOU MATTER BECAUSE YOU ARE, YOU MATTER UNTIL THE LAST MOMENT OF YOUR LIFE’

“I will never forget this 33 year old man, father of 3 small children. He was terminally ill, he had very dirty and smelly wounds, a foot looking like a Cole-flower because of metastasized cancer. Together with him and a surgeon we decided to amputate his lower leg. After this he could work on his land again, he didn’t smell anymore and friends were visiting him again. Although it didn’t prolong his life, it gave it much more quality of life for as long as he still had to live. That’s what Hospice Tororo is about!”

The program

In Hospice Tororo we provide palliative care via several models. In all models we work according to a multidisciplinary approach. This means that all patients can benefit from medical, psycho-social and spiritual care.

Home based care

Most of our patients can’t leave their homes due to their disease. Some are simply too weak or in too much pain. To give them the care they need we visit the patient at home.

Hospice based care

Those patients, who are able, are asked to come to the Hospice clinic from where they will receive the needed care. The hospice clinic doesn’t have the facility for inpatients. When admission is necessary, this will be arranged in Tororo Hospital where also our clinic is located.

JACARANDA BLUEGOAT GARDENS

Hospice Tororo Volunters Guest House

Hospice Tororo has for (international) volunteers and visitors from both hospice and other organizations a volunteers house, called the Jacaranda Blue Goat Gardens.

If you come to Tororo you are welcome to stay with us. It offers comfortable and safe accommodation for a small price. The house is on a shared but enclosed compound in a nice quite area in Tororo. Around Jacaranda Blue Goat gardens, you can experience the Ugandan lifestyle, but in the house it is comfortable.
The house is self contained, with a living room, a resturant, bathroom, bedrooms. There is electricity and running water.

Jacaranda Blue goat Gardens is about 10 minutes walk from Tororo center and about 25 minutes walk to the main hospital (where the hospice is also located).
It is possible to stay at Jacaranda Blue Goat Gardens for both short and longer periods. The costs a night are 10 euro/ 13 US dollar, this is inclusive water, electricity and bed sheets. Excutive rooms is for $25 perday.If you need an airport pick-up than this can also be arranged.

For more information and bookings please send an email to: admin@hospicetororo.org

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FIELDWORK EXEPRIENCES

Nurse with a terminal child

In our palliative care service,w e intereact with our patients with love and disgnity.

Here a hospicenurse Lucy and a social worker Isoke;provides medical care, counselling, psycho-social support and spiritual care.

Hospice team offering spritual suport

Spiritual

At Hospice Tororo we work from a Christian perspective. But every patient, whatever his or her conviction, is welcome. To create an environment where all patients can feel welcome we are working with spiritual leaders of all kinds of religions. Every year there is a commemorative service for all patients who have died in the previous year, this service is also open for all religions to attend and will be supported by different religious leaders. As long as it’s fitting our medical standards we try to accommodate for maximum flexibility in cultural and religious customs of our patients.

We provide intern nurses expereinces

Emotional
When someone is seriously ill, especially when he or she is facing a life-limiting disease, this often coincides with fear and doubt for both patient and family. Hospice Tororo we try to give or hold on to the best quality of life possible for a patient during this period. Thereby we try to create a surrounding whereby there can also be valuable moments and a dignified end of ones life’s end. After one dies, the family has to cope with the loss of their beloved one. When possible the team of Hospice Tororo visits the family for bereavement

PYSCHOSOCIAL CHILD PROGRAM

Physical

The fight against pain is a very important part of the medical care given at Hospice Tororo. Hospice Tororo provides and administers oral morphine (solution) as well as other medication. We carefully follow our patients to make sure their medication use is most effective. Besides fighting pain we regularly treat infections as well as wounds and other physical complaints.

In our program we don’t only care for the patient, we also care for their relatives and the community.

We teach family how to best help their sick relative. We educate communities that Cancer isn’t caused by ‘bad spirits’ or an ‘evil spell’ from a stranger or angry neighbor. We teach that it is a very serious but not contagious disease. Through education we try to break the social isolation and stigmas.

Important focuses in our social care are the (young) children of the patient. How do they cope with a severely sick parent and the eventual loss of this parent. Together with the patient, relatives and collaborating with other organizations we also look for solutions in case a child becomes an orphan.

Besides this many patients loose their income due to their disease. In the social care program we counsel and guide patients in how to get other resources services.

The team of Hospice Tororo listens: nurses and cares for the patients and their relatives from all works of life. We care without differentiating in gender, age, and ethnicity, social and religious background. We are there for all patients in need, because every life counts!