Medicare Project
Home care nursing project: Dr Judit Finnna’s dedicated team of nurses care for 200-300 patients confined to their homes with chronic or terminal illness.
They provide loving care: giving bed baths, dressing ulcers, making sure there is food in the house, and helping with rehabilitation where possible.
Without them there is little or no care or alleviation and many would die at home alone without any treatment, and the home care nurse visiting may be the only human being they see. Many would starve, and often cannot afford treatment (- a bandage or a pack of paracetamol can cost a sixth of a month’s pension!).
Many of these patients look forward eagerly to receiving a food parcel when we send out our boxes full of food in the Autumn and Winter.
Dr Judit visiting an elderly patient
Here Dr Judit is visiting an elderly patient with two nurses. The work is considerable, the time sacrifice immense, the effort sapping, but it is all worth while when they see the smiles on the faces of those they visit.
Temperatures
In the summer the temperatures often reach 35-40 degrees, in the winter the temperature often drops to below 20 degrees. The nurses travel in both the heat and the cold to meet these people.
These nurses often visit children in hospitals bringing a little light relief dressing as clowns to entertain the children. Playing with them givbes them that little biut of love they need.