Workshop on palliative care underway in Accra

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• nana 12 years ago

  i beg, GNA please check your definition for 'palliative'. it is actually Palliation to begin with, as a field. it is not relieving ad preventing suffering of patients but of incurable, 'waiting to die' patients. the treatment ...
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  i beg, GNA please check your definition for 'palliative'. it is actually Palliation to begin with, as a field. it is not relieving ad preventing suffering of patients but of incurable, 'waiting to die' patients. the treatments are not meant to cure, neither is there expected to be a cure per se, but managing them to die in dignity with less suffering

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• BAWA 12 years ago

  But Nana there is nothing in the literature like 'Palliation Care' it is palliative care and it is not also meant solely for those "waiting to die". Application of palliative care can also prolong the lives of cancer patients ...
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  But Nana there is nothing in the literature like 'Palliation Care' it is palliative care and it is not also meant solely for those "waiting to die". Application of palliative care can also prolong the lives of cancer patients especially when the option of complete cure is limited. The GNA is not wrong in any way please.

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