DOI: 10.17140/pmhcoj.2024.v10.i01.pp04-06.2415 ISSN: 2377-8393

Providing Palliative Care for Patients Affected by Coronavirus Disease 2019: Insights on Ethical Difficulties in Honoring and Fulfilling Patients’ Requests

John Weru

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines palliative care as: “an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual.”

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