Report reveals a significant global palliative care gap among children
medicalxpress - Nearly all the world's 10.6 million children experiencing serious health-related suffering (SHS) live in low- and middle-income countries with little to no access to palliative care or specialized care for their illness, according to a comprehensive new r…
AI Summary: A new global analysis reveals roughly 10.6 million children live with serious health‑related suffering and face a striking lack of pediatric palliative services, especially in low‑ and middle‑income countries. The study calls for urgent policy, training and resource commitments to close the gap and reduce needless pain for sick children — because saying “we’ll do better” is no longer enough.
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