Image: PixabayFamilies in Durban say the Highway Hospice in Sherwood has been an incredible support system for them while they took care of their loved ones with terminal illnesses.
The organisation found that closing the in-patient unit would be a better use of donor funds, as the in-patient unit cost R500 000 to operate. They are still able to send nursing staff to more than 600 people for home-based care in the greater Durban area. This is now their main area of care. But this too, needs funding to cover the costs of petrol, medicines and the nurse or doctor.
“He actually asked sister Lauran to take him to the hospice but then she made him understand that they haven’t got in-patients so they were only doing district visits. I think he wanted to go [to the hospice] he felt more confident with them because they are in the medical field. To him he must of realised that they can do more for him than I could.