Gdansk

Hospicjum im E Dutkiewicza was established in 1983 and was one of the first palliative care organisations in Poland.

The hospice provides home care for patients with terminal illnesses, with doctors, nurses, and volunteers visiting patients in their own homes. There is also a residential unit with 30 beds, designed to feel as much like home as possible with a full medical and chaplaincy staff, as well as volunteers, and a palliative care and pain management clinic. The hospice also supports families, particularly children orphaned following the death of a patient. All care is provided by the hospice free of charge. 

To date the Alina Foundation has donated the following equipment:

• in 2011, an oxygen concentrator, four blood pressure meters, two suction pumps and two inhalators;
• in 2012, a medical trolley and three stands for hospital drips;
• in 2013, a specialist bed with an anti-bedsore mattress;
• in 2015, dressings, nappies, pulse-oxymeters and two sensors for children;
• in 2016, two stands for hospital drips, 10 mattresses, and 10 sets of pillows, duvets and blankets; and
• in 2017, a portable oxygen concentrator and 22 blood pressure meters.
• in 2020, PPE (aprons, masks, gloves) for staff
• in 2022, 2310zł to support the Ukrainian refugee patients under the care of the hospice and three oxygen concentrators

"Your help is invaluable for us. We care for many patients so the essential equipment that we provide them with is heavily used. Yesterday we received the equipment we requested: two suction pumps and two inhalators. We are hugely grateful to you, what you are doing is invaluable." -  Janina Piotrowska, Hospicjum im. Ks. Eugeniusza Dutkiewicza SAC

Take a look at the hospice website: www.hospicjum.info

In the name of the directors, staff and patients of Hospicjum im Ks Dutkiewicza, we would like to sincerely thank the Alina Foundation for supporting the hospice through donating an oxygen concentrator and blood pressure monitors as part of Cycle Poland 2011. This is a great gesture of kindness shown towards the dying person.

Pope John Paul wrote in his poem "the hands are the landscape of the heart": During that most difficult part of life, dying -  in hours of particular loneliness the hand of a person holding his hand becomes the greatest need of the dying man.  He pleads with all his heart not to be alone. We hear this cry of the dying everyday, hurrying to their beds with medical and spiritual help. 

We are hugely grateful for your understanding and support of our service.