Impact of COVID-19 on palliative care of cancer patients: Perspectives from Pakistan

The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected the survival rate and palliative care of cancer patients all over the globe. In Pakistan, there are only a few institutions and organizations which provide specialized facilities for palliative care. During the pandemic, these specialized facilities were...

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Autores principales: Saeed, Sajeel, Tousif, Kashif, Fatir, Chaudhary Abdul, Basit, Jawad, Lee, Ka Yiu, Tahir, Muhammad Junaid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9098974/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35582458
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.103705
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author Saeed, Sajeel
Tousif, Kashif
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Lee, Ka Yiu
Tahir, Muhammad Junaid
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description The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected the survival rate and palliative care of cancer patients all over the globe. In Pakistan, there are only a few institutions and organizations which provide specialized facilities for palliative care. During the pandemic, these specialized facilities were further limited. As only less than one percent of people had access to palliative care across Pakistan in the pandemic, the situation can be improved by establishing more such departments, providing telemedicine, increasing social media campaigns, and highlighting the importance of palliative care among cancer patients.
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spelling pubmed-90989742022-05-13 Impact of COVID-19 on palliative care of cancer patients: Perspectives from Pakistan Saeed, Sajeel Tousif, Kashif Fatir, Chaudhary Abdul Basit, Jawad Lee, Ka Yiu Tahir, Muhammad Junaid Ann Med Surg (Lond) Short Communication The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected the survival rate and palliative care of cancer patients all over the globe. In Pakistan, there are only a few institutions and organizations which provide specialized facilities for palliative care. During the pandemic, these specialized facilities were further limited. As only less than one percent of people had access to palliative care across Pakistan in the pandemic, the situation can be improved by establishing more such departments, providing telemedicine, increasing social media campaigns, and highlighting the importance of palliative care among cancer patients. Elsevier 2022-05-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9098974/ /pubmed/35582458 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.103705 Text en © 2022 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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