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The plight of palliative care in Kenya
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She was 64-years-old, but looked markedly older. The metastatic cancer had ravaged her body. She lay in her bed, curled, motionless, covered by a soft pink blanket. Her ‘comfy blanket’, she called it, now old and mangled, had been with her since childhood and seemed to somewhat ease her pain. Her nephew, perhaps in his early twenties, ushered me into her room. The curtains hindered any sunlight making it difficult to see at first. A fan on the wall lay static, the blades full of reddish dust. The smell of dettol antiseptic was overpowering. Sayed K Ali’s touching account of daily palliative practice in Kenya highlights the current state of the field in sub-Saharan Africa and the need for further and continual change; both in attitude and service provision.
Voir la revue «EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PALLIATIVE CARE, 25»
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