Hospice care does not just end with tending to the health needs of the sick. While following a home-based care-giver from the Mofolo Hospice in Soweto, it'€™s evident that care-givers often deal with social problems of their patients.

This week is Hospice Week in South Africa. To mark this, we look at the work of a few hospices. When it first set up in Mofolo, Soweto, in a corrugated iron structure nine years ago, Mofolo Hospice had only two nursing sisters and less than 40 patients. Today, the centre has a staffing complement of 20 and over 500 patients in its books.