New initiatives to allow Hong Kong’s elderly or terminally ill patients to spend their final moments in a more comfortable way, including the option to die at home, could be made possible by a review promised in the chief executive’s maiden policy address on Wednesday, the Post has learned.
These measures could include giving patients the right to tell medics not to administer potentially damaging emergency treatment such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
For frail patients,...
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