Mission: to enhance and develop Palliative Care efforts throughout the ELCT health system, incorporating the basic principles of Palliative Care with an emphasis on spiritual health and relationships.
Personnel:
Kristopher Hartwig MD
2004 Activities
1:
Above physician recruited through the ELCA as a missionary position, beginning
work fulltime by August 2004
2: LWF funding obtained for the year 2004 to
allow the program to begin, which has allowed for travel, meetings, and other
key aspects of the work
3: Hosted a ELCT wide conference on Palliative
Care June 2004
4: Shared as host, with Selian Hospice, for the
first meeting of the African
Palliative Care Association June 2004
5: 16 of 20 ELCT hospitals visited by the end
of 2004
6: February 2005 meeting planned to push
forward PC and Home Based Care from where things are presently
7: Dr. Hartwig serving as Chair of the
Tanzanian Palliative Care Association Steering Committee, with 2 TPCA trips to
Dar and more such meetings planned.
8: KH also serving on Advocacy Committee of the
APCA
The ELCT hospitals met in February of 2005 with the theme of Teambuilding
in Palliative care, using the Biblical text Galatians 6:2 "Bear one
another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ".
Links:
APCA
contact: apca@hospiceafrica.or.ug
TPCA
contact: hartwig@elct.or.tz
Lutheran
Church Hospitals: http://health.elct.or.tz/location map.htm