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The year before last, the Hořovice hospital was supported by the Avast Foundation, which enabled 18 hospitals to develop hospital palliative care as part of the Together to the End campaign. The Hořovice hospital thus received grant funds of CZK 2 million, which it used for the development of palliative care. "Our project consisted in the creation of a hospital palliative care team and also the construction of two acute palliative care beds in the adult part of the hospital, more precisely in the internal ward, and two beds in the children's part of the hospital," says Mgr. Jiří Pichlík, head nurse of the internal ward and coordinator of the Hořovice project.
The project has created a functional multidisciplinary palliative care team across the hospital, which is composed of various specialists (doctors, nurses, social workers, psychologist, clinical pharmacologist and rehabilitation doctor). They all meet in regular meetings and work together to manage individual patients.
The guarantor of the whole project is MUDr. Mahulena Mojžíšová, the head of the children's ward, who is not only a highly erudite paediatrician but also a certified palliator or a doctor educated in palliative medicine. She is very involved in the issues of palliative care and palliative medicine, among other things, as the Chair of the Section of Paediatric Palliative Medicine of the Czech Society of Palliative Medicine and a member of the Committee of the Czech Society of Palliative Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
The work of the palliative team, not only in Hořovice, is also the subject of the following report by Czech Television http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ct24/domaci/2382358-umirat-dustojne-ministerstvo-chce-zavadet-paliativni-peci-do-nemocnic
