Wągrowiec

The Merciful Samaritan Hospice has 14 beds in nine wards: 4 individual rooms and five two person rooms. The home care hospice looks after 30 patients in their own homes.

The hospice cares for patients in the advanced stages of cancer, who have finished treatment but who need help dealing with the symptoms of their illness. 

The association that runs and secures funds for the hospice in Wagrowiec also runs a shelter and soup kitchen.

To date, the Alina Foundation and Cycle Poland have donated:

• in 2010, five anti-bedsore mattresses;
• in 2012, four blood pressure meters, four anti-bedsore mattresses, two inhalators, three thermometers, hand towel dispensers, rolls of of hand towels , a suction pump and a stand;
• in 2014, two specialist beds;
• in 2015, two oxygen concentrators and two pulse-oxymeters.

Cycle Poland riders visited the hospice in 2013 to see its work first hand. 

"We are full of respect for the work of the Alina Foundation and its initiatives, and especially its engagement and support for people in the final stages of life, including through the organisation of Cycle Poland, which aims to raise funds for hospices and to raise social awareness and understanding of the hospice movement and the work of hospice volunteers.

The ride makes people aware that a hospice allows a person, yes to die, but with dignity and without despair; that a hospice is not only a place where one waits for death, but waits well prepared. The more such awareness, the better hospices will function and the more new hospcies will be created."
- ​Michał Politowski, Vice President

Take a look at the hospice website