{"id":8553,"date":"2018-02-03T14:34:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T22:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=8553"},"modified":"2018-07-09T14:37:49","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T21:37:49","slug":"doctors-want-palliative-care-for-terminally-ill-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=8553","title":{"rendered":"Doctors want palliative care for terminally ill patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>News Agency of Nigeria<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">News Agency of Nigeria<\/p>\n<p>The World Medical Association (WMA), African region has called for strengthening of palliative care for patients with terminally ill ailments across Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The association made the call in a communiqu\u00e9 issued at the end of its conference hosted by the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) on Saturday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Palliative care entails alleviating the suffering of terminally ill patients, physically, psychologically, socially, spiritually and emotionally.<\/p>\n<p>The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the theme of the conference; &#8220;An Excursion into the\u00a0End of Life Spectrum: Defining the boundaries between palliative care, euthanasia and physician-assisted-suicide.&#8221; . . . 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