Mildmay Mission AIDS hospital opens

Title

Mildmay Mission AIDS hospital opens

Genre

Interview

TX Date

23 Feb 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:03:13

Description

Margaret Shiels reports on the opening of the Mildmay Mission hospital. The world’s first hospice ward set aside exclusively for AIDS patients in east London claims to be the only Christian AIDs hospice in the world to offer specialised care for patients in the terminal stages of the killer disease. Includes interview with Helen Taylor-Thompson, hospice governor.

Contributors

Margaret Shiels; Helen Taylor-Thompson

Keywords

London; Health; UK; Great Britain; Hospitals; Hackney; Charities; Diseases; AIDS; HIV; Hospices; Mildmay Mission hospital

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