An account of Palliative Care for Children project conducted by specialist volunteers from Singapore (organised by Singapore International Foundation) in Jakarta, Indonesia Training conducted by specialist volunteers from Singapore helped nurse Rina Wahyuni gain confidence in promoting palliative care for terminally ill children. Despite not knowing much about caring for terminally ill children, former paediatric […]
2012 – A year in Review
This has been a year of consolidation and a year of celebration. 2012 began with a new challenge as the team prepared itself for a change of leadership. This time, instead of looking externally the Board decided to promote someone who has been with Rachel House for 4 years. The entire team rose to the […]
Ultimate wish: To die peacefully at home, free from pain & surrounded by loved ones
More palliative nurses as population greys by Ashley Chia Dec 11, 2012 (TODAYonline) SINGAPORE – The number of nurses trained to look after terminally ill patients rose in recent years as palliative care is increasingly integrated into mainstream care.Across the public healthcare sector, there are currently 337 nurses trained in palliative care – a 31-per-cent […]
Ashoka Fellowship for Rachel House
(Ashoka Newsletter December 3, 2012) Rachel House staff nurse provides home care to patients in Jakarta SINGAPORE – Lynna Chandra of Medan, Indonesia, has been selected by Ashoka: Innovators for the Public as a member of its global fellowship of leading social entrepreneurs. Lynna Chandra is changing the way children with terminal illnesses are treated […]
Singapore’s President Tony Tan visited Rachel House on 29th November 2012
Working together to care for terminally-ill kids President Tan meets volunteers, staff at Jakarta hospital Published on Nov 30, 2012 Flanked by his mother, a patient in the SIF Palliative Care Project at Dharmais Cancer Hospital welcomes Dr Tan and his wife Mrs Mary Tan, Ms Lynna Chandra (right) and SIF executive director Jean Tan […]
Dying well – a basic right for all
How to Die By BILLKELLER (TheNew York Times, Published: October 7, 2012 ) ONE morning last month, Anthony Gilbey awakened from anesthesia in a hospital in the east of England. At his bedside were his daughter and an attending physician. The surgery had been unsuccessful, the doctor informed him. There was nothing more that could be done. […]
Heartbreak & Hope – a walk down the memory lane with SIF
HEARTBREAK AND HOPE When medicine and doctors can no longer help a dying child, it helps to have knowledgeable and empathetic support. Indonesian NGO Rachel House is showing the way, with a little help from Singapore friends. By Kimberly Kraft and Elaine Foo (Source: http://singaporemagazine.sif.org.sg/heartbreak-and-hope/ ) The child was screaming. He was screaming […]
Rachel House’s 1st Public Seminar on Palliative Care
With a vision that no child should ever have to die in pain without love and care, Rachel House has set itself a seemingly unattainable goal. With only a handful of nurses on our team, it was clear to us that as soon as the first team is sufficiently confident in their knowledge of palliative […]
My diary as a volunteer at Rachel House (by Gemma Rhodes)
“I have started this diary to record as accurately as possible not only what I have seen at Rachel House but the way it has struck me emotionally. I first got involved with Rachel House because, after working in the corporate world for seven months, I found that I had developed a desperate need to […]
