ANNUAL REPORT 2019/20 Hospice Africa Uganda
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Hospice Africa Uganda ANNUAL REPORT 2019/20 HOSPICE AFRICA UGANDA l Annual Report l 2019 - 2020 1 Table Of Contents List of Tables Table 1: Enrollment at all HAU sites 07 LIST OF TABLES 2 Table 2: Modes of Contacts of Patients Seen on Program 08 Table 3: Daycare attendance at each site 10 LIST OF FIGURES 3 Table 4: Beneficiaries of the Road To Care (RTC) Project 12 HAU VISION AND MISSION 3 Table 5: Quantities of morphine powder that have been used annually 15 Table 6: Dispatch quantities for the last financial year 16 MESSAGE FROM THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 4 Table 7: Over the course of this period, the following activities were held 17 MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD CHAIR 5 List of Figures E XECUTIVE SUMMARY 6 Figure 1: Patients seen at the three HAU sites 2018/2019 07 Figure 2: Cancer / HIV pro le of the new enrollments New admissions (n=1144) 08 1 .0 PATIENT CARE 7 Figure 3: Figure 3: CVWs at MHM at their Update Meeting 13 Figure 4: Students and teachers of the Francophone Initiators course held in 18 2.0 MORPHINE PRODUCTION 15 2019 at HAU- Uganda. (R): Sylvie Dive presenting at conference in Democratic Republic of Congo 3.0 INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS 17 Figure 5: (L): Dr Anne and Dr Dorothy Olet are welcomed in Ouagadougou airport 18 in Burkina Faso 1 December 2019 (R): TOT students and their facilitators show off 4.0 THE INSTITUTE OF HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE IN AFRICA (IHPCA) 19 their certi cates in SenegalA 5.0 HAU PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS 21 6.0 BRIEF REPORT ON OTHER HAU ACTIVITIES 23 7.0 FINANCE 22 HAU VISION 8.0 CHALLENGES AND LESSONS LEARNED 29 Palliative care for all in need in Africa 9.0 LIST OF TEAM MEMBERS 24 APPENDIX 32 -33 Mission Statement F UNDING APPEAL 34 To bring peace to the suffering in Africa through providing and APPRECIATION 34 facilitating affordable and accessible palliative care in Uganda and other African countries 22 HOSPICE AFRICA UGANDA l Annual Report l 2019 - 2020 HOSPICE AFRICA UGANDA l Annual Report l July 2018 to June 2019 ii Table Of Contents List of Tables Table 1: Enrollment at all HAU sites 07 LIST OF TABLES 2 Table 2: Modes of Contacts of Patients Seen on Program 08 Table 3: Daycare attendance at each site 10 LIST OF FIGURES 3 Table 4: Beneficiaries of the Road To Care (RTC) Project 12 HAU VISION AND MISSION 3 Table 5: Quantities of morphine powder that have been used annually 15 Table 6: Dispatch quantities for the last financial year 16 MESSAGE FROM THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 4 Table 7: Over the course of this period, the following activities were held 17 MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD CHAIR 5 List of Figures E XECUTIVE SUMMARY 6 Figure 1: Patients seen at the three HAU sites 2018/2019 07 Figure 2: Cancer / HIV pro le of the new enrollments New admissions (n=1144) 08 1 .0 PATIENT CARE 7 Figure 3: Figure 3: CVWs at MHM at their Update Meeting 13 Figure 4: Students and teachers of the Francophone Initiators course held in 18 2.0 MORPHINE PRODUCTION 15 2019 at HAU- Uganda. (R): Sylvie Dive presenting at conference in Democratic Republic of Congo 3.0 INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS 17 Figure 5: (L): Dr Anne and Dr Dorothy Olet are welcomed in Ouagadougou airport 18 in Burkina Faso 1 December 2019 (R): TOT students and their facilitators show off 4.0 THE INSTITUTE OF HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE IN AFRICA (IHPCA) 19 their certi cates in SenegalA 5.0 HAU PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS 21 6.0 BRIEF REPORT ON OTHER HAU ACTIVITIES 23 7.0 FINANCE 22 HAU VISION 8.0 CHALLENGES AND LESSONS LEARNED 29 Palliative care for all in need in Africa 9.0 LIST OF TEAM MEMBERS 24 APPENDIX 32 -33 Mission Statement F UNDING APPEAL 34 To bring peace to the suffering in Africa through providing and APPRECIATION 34 facilitating affordable and accessible palliative care in Uganda and other African countries HOSPICEHOSPICE AFRICA UGAND AFRICAA UGANDAl Annual Reportl Annual l July Report 2018 l to2019 June - 2020 2019 ii3 Message From The Chief Executive Director: Dr. Agasha D. Birungi all eligible persons interested in palliative care studies to visit our website at https://www.hospice-africa. org/education/ and see our range of both short and long courses available at the IHPCA. The Department of International Programmes continued to reach the various countries in Africa where palliative care has been launched. The team engaged the alumni of the initiators’ courses both English speaking and French speaking, offering mentorship and other forms of technical support in the endeavour to promote and sustain palliative care services in their countries. https://www.hospice-africa. Greetings from Hospice Africa Uganda (HAU). We are org/international-programs/ pleased to inform you that we have ended yet another year of compassionate service to all that we could HAU was not spared by the effects of the COVID-19 reach with palliative care. We are indeed honored to pandemic. The last quarter of the year saw HAU have served you despite the challenging environment. teams at all the three sites shocked with a country- Over the course of this year 2019/20, we offered position that HAU was already in and one that we were palliative care to 2,702 patients across our 3 sites, hoping to come out of through planned fundraising and cumulatively 34,993 patients have been cared for events. We trudged through this situation, serving since 1993. Most of our patients have cancer, an illness patients in the best possible way we could. With deep that has far-reaching implications for families. HAU gratitude, we extend our thanks to the Government of is at the forefront of supporting these patients and Uganda COVID-19 task force, corporate organisations, their carers, relieving their symptoms and working Private sector, the church,the HAU board members, the founding bodies of HAU, all HAU members, friends towards improving their quality of life. Our team at the and well-wishers for the donations that came to help Morphine Production Unit (MPU) worked passionately HAU meet the Standard Operating Procedures set by and tirelessly to ensure availability of oral liquid WHO and Government of Uganda to enable the service morphine solution, a drug used for relief of moderate continue at a small scale rather than shutting down. – severe pain in life-threatening illnesses and meeting the standards set by the National Drug Authority. Our vision calls on us to deliver palliative care for all who need it and so we move into the next year with At HAU, we are certain that education is a major means hope and faith that we will be able. To everyone reading to spread this model of compassionate care guided by this report, you are dear to us and we wish you nothing the hospice ethos to other countries in Africa. This year less than excellent health, prosperity and peace. our Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care in Africa Dr. Agasha D. Birungi in various academic programmes in palliative care. Chief Executive Director, Hospice The IHPCA now has a Masters in Palliative care offered Africa Uganda 1 44 HOSPICE AFRICA UGANDA l Annual Report l 2019 - 2020 HOSPICE AFRICA UGANDA l ANNUAL REPORT 2019/20 Message From The Chief Message from the Board Executive Director: Chair: MR. TOM DUKU commendable results which were able to see HAU Dr. Agasha D. Birungi through to the end of the first phase financial year. Special thanks go to The Foundation which has worked hand in hand with the HAU Board to relentlessly all eligible persons interested in palliative care studies support HAU through various fundraising efforts. to visit our website at https://www.hospice-africa. The second half of this business year took on an org/education/ and see our range of both short and unprecedented twist when the COVID-19 pandemic long courses available at the IHPCA. hit the world. Uganda and HAU activities especially were not spared by the lock downs associated with the The Department of International Programmes COVID-19 pandemic standard operating procedures. continued to reach the various countries in Africa COVID 19 presented unchartered waters which further where palliative care has been launched. The team escalated the already ailing financial position of HAU. engaged the alumni of the initiators’ courses both Our patient service was severely affected. On this English speaking and French speaking, offering note I would like to express my deepest appreciation mentorship and other forms of technical support in first of all to the HAU team members especially the the endeavour to promote and sustain palliative care “frontline clinical team”, supported by members of the services in their countries. https://www.hospice-africa. Board of Directors, The Foundation, Dr. Anne Merriman Greetings from Hospice Africa Uganda (HAU). We are org/international-programs/ (Founder) and all our well-wishers who went out of pleased to inform you that we have ended yet another HAU was not spared by the effects of the COVID-19 their way and weathered storms to ensure that HAU year of compassionate service to all that we could remained financially sustained through the shock reach with palliative care. We are indeed honored to pandemic. The last quarter of the year saw HAU teams at all the three sites shocked with a country- Special salutation from I and the Board of Directors, waves of the COVID – 19 period. have served you despite the challenging environment. Hospice Africa Uganda (HAU).