THE NAIROBI HOSPICE – TRIBUTE TO THE LATE PROFESSOR EDWARD GEORGE KASILI

Abstract

Professor Edward George Kasili is regarded as the father of the hospice movement inKenya. In 1990, he together with Ruth Wooldridge and Jane Moore founded the NairobiHospice which takes care of patients with life limiting illnesses from all walks of life.This was of course not easy since even now the mentality of people towards dying isstill the same, where people fear talking about death. The hospice movement tries tohelp somebody die well, die with dignity. The Nairobi Hospice had the privilege ofcaring for Professor Kasili in his last days before he passed on due to complicationsof cancer. This article is a tribute to this great man for his forward thinking and forstarting the hospice movement.