Monday, September 12, 2011

Rwanda moving to provide “good deaths” for terminally ill

CMAJ: Rwanda moving to provide “good deaths” for terminally ill: “Go home and die.” Until recently, that advice constituted the extent of end-of-life care that patients with incurable diseases could expect in Rwanda. As in much of the developing world, palliative care was virtually nonexistent in the tiny Africa nation, condemning those with terminal illnesses to meet their end in isolation and pain.

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