National Day of Relief: the Right to Palliative Care Must Become a Duty

25 May marks the XXIV edition of the Day established in 2001 to promote and witness the culture of relief from physical and moral suffering in favor of all those who are completing their life path, not being able to benefit from cures destined for healing. In Italy progresses but still too many disparities

Despite the progress in modern medicine, many doubts and prejudices still persist around palliative care. This is what the Integrated University Hospital (Aoui) of Verona reminds us, underlining how, even when treatments are no longer able to cure, the patient does not...