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.

---

Warning: Undefined variable $thumbnail in /home3/thegood9/public_html/website_70aad9ea/cluster.php on line 61

Related Stories

---

Warning: Undefined variable $top_stories in /home3/thegood9/public_html/website_70aad9ea/cluster.php on line 128

Judge orders HHS to restore AAP funding / 4 months

Newborn death linked to raw milk consumption in New Mexico / 3 months

Brain injury nearly ten times more common in unhoused people / 3 months

Nevada launches public-option ACA plan amid federal health turmoil / 3 months

Destructive infant meningitis cases tied to Paenibacillus raise alarm / 3 months

Paper argues 'provider' label undermines physicians' ethical role / 3 months

Kaiser settles DOL probe as worker strikes flare and ebb / 3 months