NTPC Community Hospice Care Has Launched
"The citizens"" lives are considered as our responsibilities; whether from the beginning of life or the end of it,” said the New Taipei City Mayor Eric Chu at the City conference on March 19. The NTPC Community Hospice Care (CHC) launched to take care of the terminal cancer patients, and Chu hoped that the idea could successfully spread through the nation in the future.
Lin Xuerong, the Director of Public Health Department, presented a report on the CHC project at the city conference. The report showed that the death amount in NTPC per year is about 20,000 people; 90% of them are the patients with chronic diseases, but only five hospitals in NTPC provide the hospice services with 96 bedrooms. In addition, the insufficient problems are not only on medical institutions, but also the health care workers. In that case, the NTPC CHC has launched the service to provide health care at home in order to make the patients pass away peacefully.
Chu shared the viewing experience on the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film ‘Amour’, which is a film about the issues of elder caring, especially the home caring. Chu indicated that the top priority of the CHC project is to fix the insufficient of health care workers and their lack of training issues.
Chu pointed out three main ideas on the CHC project. First, with only five hospitals have the hospice service, the CHC project need to strive for more medical institutions (so far, Sijhih Cathay General Hospital and NTUH Jinshan Branch has agreed to join the project). Secondly, encouraging the community medical centers to join the project. Lastly, strengthen the training works on medical staffs, community caring staffs, and patients"" family to form a strong and professional health care net.
In addition, last year, Chu suggested the central government to open the employment on foreign caregivers in order to assist the CHC project.
Lin Xuerong said the CHC project has been fully supported by Bureau of Health Promotion, Department of Health, which believes CHC is a great policy. Chu noted that several departments took the CHC project as a great policy and hoped the development continued to assist the citizens.