 Since opening in January 1996 until September 30th 2006, the Camillian Social Center has touched the lives of 1232 people living with HIV/AIDS. Of this number 595 people have died due to complications related to HIV/AIDS and 413 have been given the opportunity to return to the community.
The Camillian Social Center provides care to poor and abandoned people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) that are in the terminal stage of AIDS. These people are referred to the Center by the Government Social Workers employed at the provincial and district hospitals. A full-time nurse and ten (10) assistant nurses provide the residents living with HIV/AIDS with excellent quality medical care. The ten (10) nursing assistants are PLWHA that at one time were patients at the Center. Because of the nursing care and proper nourishment they have recovered and are now helping others. All the nursing assistants live outside the Center within a local community and are able to support themselves. The staff at the Center works in close collaboration with the Rayong district and provincial hospitals. The goal is to upgrade the level and q uality of medical service given to the PLWHA. Our challenge is to accompany the people living with HIV/AIDS on their journey, particularly during the last days of their life, to ensure them a “meaningful” quality of life and a “gentle” death.
Fifty beds are provided for people living with HIV/AIDS that require palliative care. In palliative care, the aim is to minimize the impact of the progressing illness so that the patients can live life to the fullest and maintain their dignity. Death is neither hastened nor postponed; life is affirmed and dying is regarded as a normal process. Our challenge is to accompany the people living with HIV/AIDS on their journey, particularly during the last days of their life, to ensure them a “meaningful” quality of life and a “gentle” death.
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The very personal story of Thanya.
Should you decide to support this project, donations made be sent directly to the:
St. Camillus Foundation of Thailand,
Bank of Ayudhya
Map-Ta-Phut Branch Rayong
Account Number 229-1-29336-3 (AYUDTHBK).
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