A group of medical professionals have formed a new concern group to advocate end-of-life care for around 1,000 children in Hong Kong who suffer terminal illnesses such as cancer or rare diseases every year.
Such services, which aim at relieving patients’ pain and symptoms, are often overlooked for children in the city, Chinese University’s paediatric professor Li Chi-kong said, adding that even similar ones for adults are lacking.
Li, who founded the group along with about...
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