Touching gesture: Hospice volunteers caressing the hands of a terminally ill patient to help her deal with her pain. Malaysia is lacking in lacking in palliative care doctors and ‘we are not doing well in the management of cancer pain among patients’. — AFP
MALAYSIA needs to do more to ease the pain of cancer patients.
When dealing with cancer, Hospis Malaysia chief executive officer and medical director Dr Ednin Hamzah says that more often than not, the focus is on the physical aspect of the disease.
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