By Genevieve Napier | Manager, Programs and Projects
Nahla is a physician in Sudan. We asked her to provide us with a brief piece on how she started in palliative care. She states that her “first encounter with palliative care was when a palliative care nurse volunteered to teach the nurses in her hospital. She proposed four lectures on nursing oncology and four lectures in palliative care. At that moment I was wondering what was there in palliative care to say in four lectures!
I accompanied her translating to the nurses from English to Arabic, and … became … aware of the need for palliative care. As I visited with her the wards, the lack of care, and basics of explanation to the patients and family struck me.
The palliative care nurse encouraged me to attend Hospice Africa Uganda, Initiators Course. It…was the IAHPC who sponsored me partially (to attend) … in October 2009. In February 2010 we started the first palliative care referral clinic, properly at the main oncology center, where I worked. Our relations with IAHPC grew stronger and stronger as we increased in our work and covered more patients.”
Nahla received a Traveling Scholarship to attend the 5th International Palliative Care Conference of the African Palliative Care Association in Kampala, Uganda, August 16-19 2016. However she found another source of funding to attend the conference which allowed another physician in Sudan, Shaima, to receive the scholarship to attend the conference in Kampala.
As a result of her act of kindness, Nahla qualified to receive a Traveling Scholarship in 2017 to attend the 15th World Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care.
From the entire IAHPC team, thank you for your generosity.
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