Sister Irene with Emmanuel, a child treated for leukaemia
Sister Irene Maria has been running Hope Ward since the beginning in 2006. During this time she has seen Hope Ward grow from a simple medical-surgical unit to a ward offering more complex care and oncology care.
With training from Dr Helena she is now a trained chemotherapy nurse.
She enjoys this new element of her work but oncology can be full of mixed feelings – chemotherapy can make patients feel worse and they need all of Irene’s support both medically and emotionally to help them through this phase.
The benefits of seeing patients go into remission (like Emmanuel, pictured here) makes it all worthwhile.
For Sister Irene, working on Hope Ward presents many challenges, she sees patients coming in without hope and in desperate circumstances. But with help from the team in Hope Ward they improve.
One of her big job satisfactions is “seeing them smile when they go home”
Sister Irene would like to thank everyone who supports Hope Ward and makes the work that she does with the vulnerable patients possible.
Thank you!
