SA palliative care practitioners fight for the dying
Palliative care practitioners have appealed to the Presidential Health Summit to take urgent action to improve palliative care in SA.
Source: biznews.com
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Palliative care practitioners have appealed to the Presidential Health Summit to take urgent action to improve palliative care in SA.
Children’s palliative care services in SA are unevenly distributed, with only one public health post for a paediatric palliative care doctor in the country.
The largest and most diverse gathering of its kind is meeting at a Palliative Care Conference in Cape Town.
Pain management for children in SA is inequitable, inconsistent, and poorly resourced, resulting in unnecessary and avoidable suffering.