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BELhospice organized a Charity dinner
with the aim to emphasize the great
needs of cancer patients for quality
palliative care as well as to raise
funds for the work with those patients.
BELhospice's Director, Mr. Zoran
Purkovic, thanked to all of the guests
and said that BELhospice home care
palliative care teams cared for
terminally ill cancer patients for the
last seven years. These patients are
among the most vulnerable
social groups
in our society and require special care,
called palliative care. He further
warned that the pain both physical and
mental for those patients and their
families can often be unbearable. "So
our message is clear, said Purkovic,
this can be prevented and we can
help
such patients and their families."
Purkovic presented the data that
currently BELhospice can take care of
about 250 patients per year but this is
insufficient
given the needs.
 "Thanks to
the charity events like this one,
BELhospice is planning to increase that
number to 1000 patients by the end of
2012. But the ultimate and only true
goal of BELhospice is to build a
hospice, i.e. inpatient facility for the
care of terminally ill patients. Only
then will we be able to say that we
helped them properly."
Guests were then addressed by Dr. Kim
Adzich who has demonstrated in his
speech the relationship between Serbia
and Canada and the way the terminally
ill are treated. He briefly presented
how
it happened that so many Canadians
have heard about BELhospice and decided
to support palliative care in Serbia
with donations.
Following this speech, BELhospice team
showed a short video about three of its
patients. These patients spoke from
their perspective about their illnesses,
the suffering and how much help and
support, that they received from
BELhospice, meant to them.
This charity dinner has enabled
BELhospice to raise significant funds to
work with patients and promote
palliative care.
This event was supported by HE Michael
Davenport, British Ambassador, HE Roman
Waschuk, Ambassador of Canada, HE Semuel
Samson, Ambassador of the Republic of
Indonesia, Mrs. Ann Pesic, Consul of the
Republic of Ireland in Serbia, as well
as number of companies and individuals.
BELhospice would like to thank hotel
Zira's management who hosted the event
and whose personal efforts have
contributed to make this evening a truly
unforgettable.
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