A Wonderful Evening for a Wonderful World: A Charity Concert – Soroptimist Kuwait facilitated a unique evening of song and music with Lebanese Oud Maestro, Charbel Rouhana. The renowned artist performed a stellar show to raise awareness for home hospice and palliative care in partnership with Soroptimist Kuwait, supported by SANAD the home hospice organization of Lebanon.
Soroptimist Kuwait has pledged to spread awareness of the cause with SANAD. Sanad SANAD is an independent, non-governmental, non-profit organization established in 2010 to provide home hospice care to terminally ill patients and their families in Lebanon.
Their mission is to provide comprehensive home-based hospice care to terminally ill patients while preserving their dignity and enhancing the quality of their remaining life. This support includes medical, social, and psychological support to patients and their family members. These support services are delivered to patients free of charge regardless of their nationality, religion, political affiliation, gender, diagnosis or ability to pay.
End of Life Care
End-of-Life Care: Help and Hope When There is No Cure 2017 –Palliative Care is probably the most misunderstood specialty in the entire field of medicine. That is because for most people, the medical profession is synonymous with saving lives. For patients with life-threatening illnesses, just as important as the gift of life is the right to have a better quality of life until a peaceful, dignified, and pain-free death. Soroptimist Kuwait hosted SANAD, the Home Hospice Organization of Lebanon, in Kuwait to learn about the system they created for hospice and palliative care at homes.
The Discussion
Soroptimist Kuwait had the honor of conducting a compelling panel discussion on “End of Life Care: Help and Hope When There is no Cure. Experts in the field of palliative and hospice care from Kuwait Palliative Care Center, Bayt Abdullah Children’s Hospice, and SANAD, the Home Hospice Organization of Lebanon explained how palliative and hospice care actually affirm life and why their expanded services are so urgent and vital for terminal patients and their families. It is hoped that fellowships and more training programs in palliative care can be offered to doctors and other medical staff, so that palliative care services in Kuwait can be expanded.