Medicine With a Mission has made a commitment to provide help to Brits-Hartsbeespoort Hospice. This is Hospice of the Chesapeake’s sister hospice in South Africa. This hospice serves 800 patients and family members a moth on an annual budget of under $80,000 US. Our commitment is to provide a total of $10,000 of medical supplies over the next several years and to help them develop their first website and provide a digital marketing campaign, so they can become self-sufficient.

“The kits will make it possible to provide care which has been impossible due to the healthcare system of South Africa that is falling apart,” wrote Lynette Janse van Rensburg, Hospice Manager of the Brits-Hartbeespoort Hospice in an email. “You will never know what a difference this will make because up until now, we have had to improvise when providing the most basic care like wound dressing.”

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