DAYCARE: Children to be taken to playroom on Tuesdays and Thursdays every week at 08h30.

ACTIVITIES:



GERMAN VOLUNTEER PROGRAM: Playground program: playtime, read stories, sing songs or make music, watching of learning program and DVD

THERAPEUTIC PROGRAM OF EACH CHILD: Developmental stimulation

Care for 36 patients, 29 adults and 7 children.
Profile of patients:
  1. Palliative: AIDS, Cancer and non curative diseases.
  2. Sub-acute: Stroke, Children Out Patient Support(COPD), post-surgical convalescence.
  3. Initiation of Anti-retroviral drugs
  4. Family Respite
  5. Oncology patients receiving chemotherapy
  6. Supply appropriate Assistive Devices and Wheelchairs to patients as necessary.
  7. Children:

STAFF MEMBERS:
1 Unit Manager
4 Professional Nurses
2 Enrolled nurses
20 Carers
1 Physiotherapist
1 Occupational Therapist
1 Secretary
2 Cleaners
1 Social Worker
1 Pastoral Carers (male & female)
Specialized in Palliative Care for adults and children.

DEFINITION OF PALLIATIVE CARE:
Palliative Care is an holistic approach for patients and their families facing problems associated with life threatening illness, through prevention and relief of suffering, the early identification and
impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual.