Palliative care in Ukraine — formation and development
Journal: Palliative Medicine in Practice
Year: 2018

The results of research of the Association of Palliative and Hospice Care and the Ukrainian Palliative and Hospice Care League show that every year at least 600 thousand people with incurable illnesses (cancer, HIV/AIDS, diabetes, tuberculosis) need palliative care. However, nowadays the realization of the right to a dignified death for incurable patients is somewhat difficult because of numerous problems of legislative, organizational, technical, personnel and moral-ethical nature, lack of fund