Palliative Care in Pakistan: Current Landscape, Challenges, Progress and the Way Forward

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Aisha Ambreen Asra Taj Habiba Zaheer Ismat Jabeen Samina Rajwani Muhammad Atif Waqar

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Aisha Ambreen
Section of Palliative Medicine, Department of Oncology, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

A B S T R A C T

Due to a rising global trend in ageing, non-communicable diseases and serious health related sufferings, a dire need for palliative care is emerging. Palliative care not only focuses on relieving suffering and improving management of complex health problems of the patient, it addresses it in the context of family dynamics and social settings making it a quint essential need globally. The greatest need of palliative care as reported in the literature is in the lower-middle-income countries (LMIC) where 78% of the global palliative care needs are. This review article will focus on the development of palliative care in Pakistan, a LMIC.

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Review Article

Publication history

Received: Fri 15, Sep 2023
Accepted: Thu 28, Sep 2023
Published: Thu 12, Oct 2023

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© 2023 Aisha Ambreen. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.IJCST.2023.02.02