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Support St Luke's Combined Hospices

Wed Mar 18, 17:00 - Tue Jun 30, 12:00

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ABOUT

There may be a limit to cure, but there is no limit to care.


In this time where the elderly, immunocompromised and those living in poverty are most at risk with the Covid-19 pandemic, the services of organisations such as St Luke's Combined Hospices are critical.


St Luke’s is a leading palliative care hospice (registered as an NPC PBO). Palliative Care, or often called end-of-life care, begins at the point of diagnosis of a terminal illness.


Founded in 1980, St Luke’s Combined Hospices transcends conventional in-patient care to offer decentralised palliative care services in significantly marginalised communities within the greater precinct of Cape Town, South Africa. This outreach was achieved in the establishment of their day-hospices. Patients are tended to at their six day hospices which are community-based hubs for medical, psychosocial, and spiritual intervention. These day hospices have an overarching aim of providing care and support for terminally ill patients within their own culture and home environment.


With their six day hospices, their 2 in-patient units (10-bed IPU at Kenilworth, and 10-bed Multi Drug Resistant TB unit at Khayalitsha), and their Home Based Care programme in Khayalitsha, St Luke’s Combined Hospices cares for, on average, 700 patients daily. The Inter-Disciplinary Team provides medical, psycho-social, spiritual and bereavement services to the patients and their families at their many well positioned community-based hubs, and in the comfort of their patients’ homes.


For those at St Luke’s Combined Hospices the patient and their family remain their core focus. They believe that while there may be a limit to cure, there is no limit to care.

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