Professionals and caregivers are being trained in the end-of-life care for children.
Having to cope with terminal illness is difficult and it is more so if the one facing death is a child. To help improve the palliative care for Indonesian children, the SIF launched a new Singapore Volunteers Overseas (SVO) project in Jakarta on April 21.
The SVO Specialist Team (Palliative Care for Children) Project is a partnership with Yayasan Rumah Rachel (Rachel House) – the first paediatric hospice in Indonesia. Led by Dr Cynthia Goh, the head of Palliative Medicine at the National Cancer Centre Singapore, the SVO team will train 40 Indonesian professionals and caregivers in end-of-life-care for children over the course of six one-week visits to Jakarta in the next two years. The trainees will then transfer their skills to other palliative caregivers in Indonesia.
Read more about the founding of Rachel House in I Say
