Worldwide inequalities in services for dying people
A friend has recently been called to be with her sister while she died of cancer, but this was in a non-Western country with few public health facilities; the cancer had been neglected, so the time during which she died was not long. Novertheless, the family incurred tens of thousands of pounds of debt for medication and other care needs, even though they did a lot of the caring themselves. This has been shared out among family members. It reminds us of the stark inequalities in services for dying people across the world.
I am reminded of this by having my attention drawn to an article about private African health services for women having babies, from the interesting women’s enews website.
The article about maternity services: http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/3955
The women’s eNews website: http://www.womensenews.org/index.cfm