The COVID-19 pandemic has strained health care systems beyond capacity resulting in many people not having access to life-sustaining measures even in well-resourced countries. Palliative and end-of-life care are therefore essential to alleviate suffering and ensure a continuum of care for patients unlikely to survive. This is challenging in sub-Saharan Africa where lack of trained teams on basic palliative care and reduced access to opioids limit implementation of palliative and end-of-life care. At the same time, health care providers have to cope with local cultural conceptions of death and absence of advance care directives.
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【저자키워드】 COVID-19, Palliative care, sub-Saharan Africa, 【초록키워드】 COVID-19 pandemic, Local, Health, implementation, Patient, death, Health care system, Care, measure, continuum, palliative, limit, resulting, lack, unlikely, reduced, absence, alleviate, strained, 【제목키워드】 management, Care, palliative,
【저자키워드】 COVID-19, Palliative care, sub-Saharan Africa, 【초록키워드】 COVID-19 pandemic, Local, Health, implementation, Patient, death, Health care system, Care, measure, continuum, palliative, limit, resulting, lack, unlikely, reduced, absence, alleviate, strained, 【제목키워드】 management, Care, palliative,