Needless Pain:Government Failure to Provide Palliative Care for Children in Kenya
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TextPublication details: New Yoork Human Rights Watch 2010Description: iv, 92pISBN: - 1-56432-668-3
- WB 310 .H79 2010
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This 78-page report found that most Kenyan children with diseases such as cancer or HIV/AIDS are unable to get palliative care or pain medicines. Kenya's few palliative care services provide counseling and support to families of chronically ill patients, as well as pain treatment, but lack programs for children. In addition, the majority of sick children are cared for at home, but there is little support for low-cost home-based palliative care. Health care workers lack training in pain treatment and palliative care, and even when strong pain medicines are available, they are often reluctant to give these medicines to children.
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