Chorzow

The hospice has a residential unit for 11 patients and cares for around 65 people in their own homes. It lies in one of the most densely populated areas of Poland, where there are only 2.2 hospice beds for every 100,000 inhabitants (there should be a minimum of 5 to 8). Each year the hospice looks after around 260 people.

To date, the Foundation has provided:

• in 2010, bedsore dressings, plasters, creams and skin cleaning lotions;
• in 2011, 6 mattresses and rollers for moving patients;
• in 2012, two suction pumps.

A group of cyclists from this hospice has taken part in each edition of the Alina Foundation’s “Cycle Poland for Polish hospices”.

"Thank you very much for the dressings and nursing supplies. They will be very useful in caring for our patients" 

See hospice webpage: www.hospicjum-chorzow.pl