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PALLIATIVE CARE TRAINING IN KENYA

Authors (max 6, presenting author included): Ali Zipporah

The first hospice in Kenya was opened over 18 years ago. Despite this, palliative care is still anew concept in Kenya. There are ten hospices and seven Palliative Care centers within hospitalsin Kenya. Four of these provide training for both health care and non health care professionalsThe types of training provided are: a one week Introductory Course to palliative care and aneighteen month Higher Diploma in palliative care. There remains an unmet need for palliativecare (PC) due to lack of awareness on palliative care. Some of challenges to training andeducation in palliative care are: inadequate funding for both recurrent expenditure and capitaldevelopment; inadequate number of qualified teachers for palliative care; brain drain for thosetrained; inaccessibility and unavailability for certain learning materials; lack of a standardizedsyllabi and curriculum for palliative care and time needed for health care providers to be trained.

There is less time allocated for PC training in medical schools where it is felt that the curriculumis already overloaded. There is limited integration and specialized training programmesKEHPCA has recently taken the lead in developing a national curriculum. The association seesthe need to develop a national curriculum to address the issues of defining palliative care servicesand establish levels of care and service delivery for palliative care providers; to standardizematerials used by various implementing partners in health care facilities; to provide a frameworkfor the evaluation of palliative care programs and to pave a way forward for the indicators thatcurrently lack from most of our data collection tools. Needs assessment survey. The process ofdeveloping a national curriculum has began. A stake holders meeting to select a task force washeld and various existing curriculums were reviewed. The curriculum, once developed will berolled out through the Ministry of Health. There is definitely a need to integrate palliative careinto the core curriculum for health care professionals and non health care professionals as thiswould increase the number of health care professionals trained and also sensitize trainees at anearly stage, thus paving way for a better attitude.

Session: Palliative care From villages to metropolies

Chair of the session: Dott. Laura Surdo, Dott. Faith M. Powell

Antea Worldwide Palliative Care ConferenceRome, 12-14 November 2008

Ali Zipporah

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