Yesterday I went out into the villages to do PALLIATIVE CARE. This is for patients whose diseases are not treatable, so the hospital provides them with the drugs they need to ease their suffering. The nurses visit these patients every month to supply them with new drugs for that month. HOW they find the patients in villages and hills with no street signs or house numbers AMAZES me! I watched as the nurse explained to a 33 year old woman who has stomach cancer, that the drugs she was giving her where not going to cure her or extend her life, but that her life was completely in the hands of the LORD.
In Uganda there is NO CURE for cancer. They do not have the resources or funds to provide treatments. Just last week two men died in the wards from cancer, one was an elder but the other one was just a 9 year-old boy.
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