Łódź is the third largest city in Poland, with a population of 1.5m and the highest rate of cancer infection and mortality. Yet it has no residential hospice for adults - in all of Łódź district there are only 9 hospice beds so most patients have to travel 140km to receive residential care. Their families often struggle to afford to visit them. Waiting lists for domestic care are long (4 to 6 weeks), meaning that many patients die before they can receive the support that they need.

Łódź does, however, have five fantastic organisations that provide  care for terminally ill patients in their own homes. We have worked with one of these organisations, Stowarzyszenie Hospicjum  Łódzkie. It is the oldest palliative care organisation in Łodz. 

The Foundation has provided several parcels of dressings, specialist skin care materials and medicines, four commode wheelchairs, two bathing chairs and an inhalator.