In Uzhgorod starts a team of "Hospice at home"
24 January at 10.00 in Uzhgorod city centre primary health care (Uzhgorod, embankment, 20) will start the work of field crews palliative care "Hospice at home". The decision to establish the brigades was made by Executive Committee of Uzhgorod city Council in September 2016, and in December the deputies in the budget for 2017 approved funding. The staff of the brigade to 9 employees. In addition to medical (doctor, nurses, Junior nurses) in the state of a mobile team of social workers, a psychologist and a chaplain. "Hospice at home" - is the possibility of obtaining skilled care for seriously ill patients and their families in the home environment: the complex of medical services, psychological support and spiritual support. The Center offers free short-term rental of medical equipment that require patients. In Uzhgorod palliative care in a given volume, require about 420 residents, so the development of health and social services is an urgent need of time. Signed agreements on cooperation with public organizations and charity funds. Reference: The main tasks of a visiting palliative care team (hospice at home): • relief of pain and other symptoms of an incurable progressive illness • psychological support palliative patients and their loved ones • spiritual support palliative patients and their families based on their religious beliefs and needs • ensuring the highest possible quality of life and dignity in palliative patients • comprehensive care for the patient and his close aides during the illness and in the case of the experience of loss Palliative care is an approach that allows to improve the quality of life of patients with incurable diseases and their families by preventing and alleviating the suffering of a terminally ill person(who, 2002). The main goal of palliative care is to support quality of life in its final stage, the maximum relief of physical and mental suffering of the patient and his relatives, as well as the preservation of human dignity of the patient at the end of life on earth. Palliative patient – the patient with a limited life expectancy, who suffers from an incurable degenerative diseases that cannot be cured by modern methods and means and are accompanied by severe pain, severe disorders of vital functions, need medical attention, care, psychological support and spiritual support. Palliative care patients are patients in terminal stages of cancer and cardiovascular diseases, AIDS and tuberculosis, with serious degenerative brain diseases and the like. In Ukraine there are 7 outreach services palliative care at home for adults and children. According to official data of the Ministry of health more than half a million terminally-ill Ukrainians in need of palliative care, and who calls four times the figure, arguing that support is needed not only by patients but also their relatives. This was reported in the Transcarpathian regional state administrationПереведено сервисом "Яндекс.Переводчик": translate.yandex.ru.
Source: http://uzinform.com.ua/
