The families of sick children have been pushed into poverty to access the country’s severely limited care services. Now a refuge is about to open its doors
Despite a combined economic crisis and drug shortage, Sri Lanka is poised to open its first children’s palliative care centre – and also hopes to vastly improve the country’s poor survival rates for child cancer.
The centre will offer end-of-life care as well as a place to stay for families who have to travel long distances to the country’s only paediatric oncology ward in the capital, Colombo.
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