Caroline Saliba shared how Hospice Malta helped her after losing both her parents within seven weeks.“A year ago we lost our mother. Then, seven and a half weeks later, we lost our father,” she said.Her mother, Eucharista Saliba Sultana, passed away on 8th March 2025, followed by her father, Giovanni Saliba, on 1st May 2025. In between, the family faced the daily realities familiar to many others: appointments, exhaustion, medication schedules, sleepless nights and the fear of not doing enough. It was during this period that Hospice Malta became part of their everyday life.Caroline recalls the small but meaningful moments: a nurse or doctor taking time to sit down, a kind word at the right moment, and the reassurance that they were no longer facing everything alone.“I feel that if it wasn’t for Hospice that gave us support and energy to continue looking after our mother, when I say Hospice, I mean all the therapists, doctors who helped my mother and father. We certainly would not have been able to give our parents the level of care that we did… For sure,” she said.She added that the support made comfort possible. “There’s nothing on my conscience… we were able to do certain things because Hospice was there to help us- otherwise we certainly wouldn’t have been able to make them comfortable… to that level.”Hospice Malta provides free, specialised palliative care focused on comfort, dignity, and quality of life, supporting both patients and their families with medical, therapeutic, and psychosocial services.For Caroline, this also meant being able to honour her father’s wish to remain at home. He died peacefully there, something she says would not have been possible without Hospice support. “With their help, we could make it happen.”Her experience is deeply personal, but not uncommon.More than 1,500 families are supported by Hospice Malta every year, with demand continuing to rise. Almost 1,000 new end-of-life patients sought help last year, while in 2025 an average of three new families a day contacted the NGO. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lovin Malta (@lovinmalta)In the same period, Hospice delivered 33,000 home professional sessions and over 4,000 social and psychosocial sessions, while more than 400 patients attended its Day Therapy Unit and clinics. Chairperson Bernadette Bonnici Kind said: “More families are reaching out to us every year. The telethon helps ensure we can continue to be there for everyone who needs us, free of charge.”Hospice Malta will host its annual 12-hour live fundraising telethon this coming 25th April, from 11am to 11pm. The broadcast will bring together patients, families, healthcare professionals, artists, and the wider community in support of Hospice Malta’s mission to provide free palliative care across Malta and Gozo.Funds raised during the telethon will support Hospice Malta’s expanding services, including community care and day therapy programmes, as well as the newly inaugurated St Michael Hospice headquarters, which includes a state-of-the-art 16-room In-Patient Unit designed to offer round-the-clock medical care, comfort, and dignity when it is needed most.One can support through the methods below on 25th April:● CALL: €25 – 5180 2024 | €50 – 5190 2031● SMS: €11.65 – 5061 9234● BOV Mobile / myAPS: 7993 3894● Online: https://hospicemalta.org/product/telethon-2026-donation/Share this with someone who can donate•