We provide patient-centred, home-based palliative care for people in Salima, Malawi with HIV/AIDS, cancer or other life-limiting illnesses. We believe this is the most family-friendly, most culturally-appropriate and best care for our patients.
We hold daily outpatient clinics where we treat most of our patients in our palliative care programme. We also work with Salima District Hospital in the administration of antiretroviral therapy and chemotherapy to our patients, and we treat in-patients there who require but do not have access to adequate pain relief. When patients are too ill to attend our clinics we visit them at home.
We also work to extend the reach of palliative care in our district and beyond by holding outreach clinics in outlying areas. We advocate for the provision of palliative care for all those in need. In addition, our Vulnerable Children Programme targets children of patients and children who are patients themselves, because we recognise that these children are especially vulnerable.
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- This man has advanced Kaposi’s Sarcoma. Patients often present very late having tried local traditional healers before travelling long distances to visit Ndi Moyo.
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- An outpatient consultation in the old clinic’s staff room which doubles as a medical library and consultation room. We look forward to the expanded facilities of our new clinic.
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- Ndi Moyo visits this patient during our rounds at Salima District Hospital, ensuring he has enough morphine for his pain.
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- Many children in Malawi suffer burns as a result of open fire cooking at home. Ndi Moyo provides appropriate analgesics for all patients in severe need.
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- When patients become too ill, we use our 4WD vehicles to visit them at home and ensure their proper palliative care.
We provide holistic palliative care that strives to care for every individual and to assist in the challenges they face. We are a centre of excellence in the provision of palliative care in Africa and a model for other palliative care providers in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.
“If there were not Ndi Moyo, maybe this time I would die”
Manuel Mbewe, Ndi Moyo driver and patient