PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Elizabeth M Molyneux
AU  - Vicky Lavy
AU  - Mary Bunn
AU  - Zoe Palmer
AU  - Fred Chiputula
TI  - Developing a palliative care service for children in the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi
AID  - 10.1136/archdischild-2013-303722
DP  - 2013 Sep 01
TA  - Archives of Disease in Childhood
PG  - 698--701
VI  - 98
IP  - 9
4099  - http://adc.bmj.com/content/98/9/698.short
4100  - http://adc.bmj.com/content/98/9/698.full
SO  - Arch Dis Child2013 Sep 01; 98
AB  - There are too few palliative care services for children in resource poor countries. Health carers are overwhelmed with cases of acute illness that need their urgent attention, and chronically ill children with life-limiting diseases have been sidelined. The HIV epidemic in southern Africa revealed the huge needs in our own hospital, and in 2002, we started a hospital-based paediatric palliative care service. It was the first in Africa. We describe here how it developed and expanded in the ensuing years and how it has affected our staff, the children and their families in our care.