{"id":52786,"date":"2023-02-20T15:30:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T06:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/feb\/20\/economic-crisis-sri-lanka-young-cancer-patients-acc"},"modified":"2023-02-20T15:30:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T06:30:29","slug":"a-place-of-healing-comfort-for-young-cancer-patients-amid-sri-lankas-economic-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52786","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A place of healing\u2019: comfort for young cancer patients amid Sri Lanka\u2019s economic crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The families of sick children have been pushed into poverty to access the country\u2019s severely limited care services. Now a refuge is about to open its doors<\/p>\n<p>Despite a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/oct\/28\/parents-cant-afford-meat-eggs-and-milk-children-bear-the-brunt-of-sri-lankas-economic-crisis\">combined economic crisis and drug shortage<\/a>, Sri Lanka is poised to open its first children\u2019s palliative care centre \u2013 and also hopes to vastly improve the country\u2019s poor survival rates for child cancer.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s only paediatric oncology ward in the capital, Colombo.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/feb\/20\/economic-crisis-sri-lanka-young-cancer-patients-acc\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The families of sick children have been pushed into poverty to access the country\u2019s severely limited care services. Now a refuge is about to open its doorsDespite a combined economic crisis and drug shortage, Sri Lanka is poised to open its first child&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2228,245,59,566,346,61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancer","category-children","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-health","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52787,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52786\/revisions\/52787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}