Filagot Tadele, a palliative care nurse, spends her days crisscrossing Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, caring for cancer and HIV patients. This stems from a lack of training, with palliative care rarely featuring on medical school curricula, says Dr Yoseph Mamo, one of the handful of Ethiopian health professionals with palliative care expertise. A driver for Hospice Ethiopia, the only organisation dedicated to providing palliative care services in Ethiopia. Photograph: Fred HarterLow investment in palliative care also limits morphine’s availability, as do outdated policies aimed at restricting use and low doctor-to-patient ratios. He says the importance of palliative care has gone unrecognised for too long.

Source: Ethiopian News July 20, 2023 07:23 UTC