Home from home for cancer patients
The Cansa Irma Bruschi Care Home, situated at 103 Merriman Street George, provides accommodation for cancer patients who are undergoing treatment at a centre far from home. Guests stay for an average of six weeks and receive meals and transport to and from the treatment centre. Services offered include:
Accommodation for twelve cancer patients in four comfortable rooms;
Three well-balanced meals per day; Night caregiver; Individual and group counselling; Support group meetings;
Proximity to hospitals and oncology units; Provision of wigs if required; Access to breast prostheses; nutritional supplements; stoma products as well as medical loan equipment such as wheelchairs and walking aids.
For more information contact Tersia Fourie on 044 874 4824 / Cansa toll free on 0800 22 66 22 / tfourie@cansa. org.za.
Visit www.cansa.org.za. Compiled by Myron Rabinowitz