| Current services in Moldova |
| The following palliative care services are known to exist in Moldova: |
| |
Existing Services (2002) |
| Adult |
Inpatient - Freestanding |
0 |
| - Hospital Unit |
0 |
| - Hospital mobile team |
0 |
| Nursing Home |
0 |
| Home Care |
3 |
| Day Care |
0 |
| Total |
3 |
| Paediatric |
Inpatient |
0 |
| Home Care |
0 |
| Day Care |
0 |
| Unspecified |
0 |
| Total |
0 |
| Grand Total |
3 |
|
| Current Projects |
| The following palliative care projects are known to exist in Moldova; these are not yet operational services |
| |
Known hospice/ palliative care projects (2002) |
| Adult |
Inpatient - Hospital |
0 |
| - Hospice |
1 |
| Home Care |
0 |
| Unspecified |
0 |
| Total |
1 |
| Paediatric |
Hospital |
0 |
| Hospice |
0 |
| Home Care |
0 |
| Unspecified |
0 |
| Total |
0 |
| Grand Total |
1 |
|
| There are currently three palliative care services in Moldova, all offering home care. |
| The 'Hospice Angelus', Chisinau, has a home care service; it has links with 3 hospices in St Petersburg, which provides 'information exchange and emotional help' and education for local personnel.2 'Hospice Angelus' is staffed by volunteers. |
| Another home palliative care service in the country is run by 'Second Breath for Moldova', within a wider programme concerned with the welfare of older people and organised along 'healthy ageing' principles, which has been running since 1998. The organisation is the initiator of a national network of NGOs working 'with and for' older people in Moldova. Within this there is a 'hospice at home' service run by trained nurses and volunteers. They provide for 15 patients at any one time: 'conversations and spiritual relief; help in personal hygiene, cleaning, laundry, physical exercises, light massage and decubitus cure, bandaging, injections.'3 A 'round table' programme for bereaved relatives has been started. |
| 'Second Breath' has had support from OSI for translation of documents, a training fellowship at St Christopher's Hospice, London, and to create a national palliative care training programme and encourage its adoption at the state level. It has several other international links with gerontological organisations and NGOs. |
| The third home care service is run by the Zubresti North Carolina Hospice in the village of Zubresti, which seeks to serve 13 surrounding villages and which is working in partnership with The Carolinas Center for Hospice and End of Life Care, Greensboro, Carolina, USA; this group has also had training at Casa Sperantei educational centre in Brasov, Romania. Funding from the USA has been pledged to renovate the former hospital in Zubresti4, and this will provide a facility with 15 inpatient beds. |
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