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"Even life has its end and it deserves dignity..."
 Hospic
st. Lucas is a specialized health care institution providing hospice
services including the healing and the therapy of the pain, which comes
along with the progressing illness. The hospice is dedicated to
incurable people who are in their final stage of life. Mostly they have
oncological diagnoses with no chance to recover in hospital nor can they
manage life within their own home environment. Before any of those very
sick people come to the hospice, every possibility of a cure must be
exhausted.
 Moreover
the patients should have been informed about their conditions before
they are brought to the hospice. The hospice guarantees that the
patients will not suffer from unbearable pain, that their dignity will
always be respected as well as they will never be left alone during
their last time of life. The ambition of the team of the specialists of
the hospice is to achieve the best life quality for the patients and
their families.
The idea of the hospice comes from the very unique nature
of those people and their biological, psychological, social and
spiritual needs. The spiritual dimension of care enjoys a high
importance which is usually undervalued in hospitals. Therefore a part
of our professional team consists of social workers, psychologists and
priests. The patients are treated with no respect to their confession.
Hospice does not
promise recover but it also does not take away the
hope. It does not promise cure but it does promise treatment.
Hospice st. Lucas has solemnly opened on the 17. 9.
2007. The construction of the hospice began in January 2006 and was
finally completed. The
Charitable domiciliary service,
Charitable nursing services and Mobile hospice service
as well as the
Hospice
volunteer movement is
located within the building of the hospice. Even though the hospice is
already working, 550 000 EUR are still needed for the endowment and
equipment. However we believe that we will manage to get the resources
also with our spenders and funders
Normal things
which create unusual work - hospice.
„30 years ago
my mother died. Suddenly she had to go to the hospital, was connected to
medical instruments, and was left with a note of the doctor saying that
she is approaching the 'end'. A nurse was kind and let me visit her room
outside the visiting hours only with note: she won´t percieve you anyway.
I could pet her hands, I could silently thank her for everything she has
done for me. Maybe she didn't really realize it, maybe I was just so
hoping for a slight handclasp that I imagined it. After this short time
of silent farewell I am grateful until today, even tough I couldn't stay
until her last breath.
5 years later my
father slowly took leave of his life. The last months he was at home
with us. Problems with the food, hygiene and care - everyone of us had
to go to work. It was a huge stress for the family. 3 times a day a
nurse came to give him his injections. Then the pain got even worse.
Thought we found time to talk with him. Our relation of father and
daughter became the chance to develop. We realized and understood each
other this time. I got the valuable possibility to spend his last moment
of his life with him.
It is life, we
lived through times of joy and happiness, but also through times of pain
and losses. In the suffering of farewell we can find humility,
reconciliation, and understanding. Preferably with nears and dears. If
we don´t have them or if they can´t be with us, then there is help in
form of hospice service.
It is good that
there are people who care about the dying and their relatives on their
journey. Absorbing pain, silence, attention for the patient, spiritual
consolation and help for family to be very close.“
Luisa
Benedikova
Charity Ostrava psychologist
Possibility to support Hospice st. Lucas:
- send
donation to the account of the licenced
public collection for funding the
building of Hospice st. Lucas. Please
contact us to help you processed it.
Charity helps, help with us.....
Thank you .... Charity Ostrava
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