Beneficiary: Hospis Malaysia

Hospis Malaysia is a charitable palliative care organisation providing evidence-based domiciliary palliative care to patients and families living in the Klang Valley. Each year, they treat approximately 1,700 patients, primarily in the comfort of their own place of residence. Care is extended to patients of any age, gender, culture, religion, or social standing, with the aim of ensuring that its patients and their families can continue to maintain a good quality of life, free of preventable physical and emotional suffering despite a serious progressive illness such as cancer, organ failure and certain degenerative neurological conditions.

In the practice of palliative care, their clinical team will work with the patient to determine his/her goals of care and support the family and caregiver to achieve this. The patient’s physical symptoms are managed, and the patient and family are guided through the expected journey of the illness. Family and caregivers are empowered with caregiving skills so that the patient can be cared for at home, often the preferred place of care.

Hospis Malaysia is also a leading palliative care teaching and training centre for healthcare workers in the Asia-Pacific region, offering teaching and attachment programmes to undergraduate and post-graduate medical students from the country’s leading medical schools. As part of their specialist training, the majority of palliative care specialist trainees from the Ministry of Health Malaysia spend a significant amount of their community training at Hospis Malaysia.

Senior members of their clinical team are also faculty members of the Asia Pacific Hospice and Palliative Care Network, a regional organisation established to further the development of palliative care in countries across Asia. Each year, almost 800 undergraduate and postgraduate medical students and healthcare workers attend their teaching and attachment programmes. Recognising the importance of including palliative care in the country’s universal healthcare provision so that everyone in need will one day have access to palliative care, they have in recent years developed a robust public advocacy programme, working with policymakers to achieve this goal, as well as educating the public about the benefits of good palliative care support. Almost all their income is derived from public donations as they do not charge for their services.

*Donations are tax-deductible under Subsection 44(6) of the Income Tax Act 1967 effective November 15, 2019. The donor will receive a tax exemption receipt.

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