¶ … health care system has focused on the prevention and cure of disease and illness. When people got sick, every bit of energy and finances went into trying to figure out how to stop it. This was true even when the patient had a disorder or a disease that was deemed incurable. For many years when someone got a disease in which there was no cure, it did not change the method of treatment. The medical community, the family and the patient continued to try every possible avenue to stop the progress. Often times the patient would submit to painful and disorienting treatments, because they didn't want to disappoint their family members or their doctors. At the same time the medical community was expanding the length of life so that many people were living longer than ever before. These two things began to clash. At what point do people stop trying to cure diseases, that are incurable? At what point is it okay for the patient to say enough and die with dignity? In recent years the shift in the United States has moved from constant cure efforts to knowing when it was time to stop. The patients who were going to die, were allowed to do so, with their dignity in tact. Whether the patient was a child, a teenager or an adult, the nation has moved in the direction of providing comfort to the dying and allowing nature to take its course. Often times, the patients and...
They are not sure what to expect, they are not sure who to ask and the family doesn't know whether to move in closer or give the patient isolation. The Hospice Foundation is an organization that is solely about dying. The organization is based in the belief that death is inevitable and the kindest thing to do for the dying is to allow it and usher them to it with love, comfort and acceptance. This paper proposes that it is time to provide Hospice services to other nations. The need for Hospice services in Morocco and in Egypt is easily defined. The need for services is also easily understood if one examines the place in medical ability that the world has reached and the care and comforts that Hospice takes in the treatment not only of the patients, but in their families during the process of dying.
There are several supporting elements for the proposal of Hospice services in Morocco and Egypt. One of those elements is the shortage of doctors in the nations. Egypt has reported that for every 1,000 residents there are only 2.1 doctors to care for them. It is vital with such a shortage to begin the acceptance that terminally ill patients would be better served through Hospice services and let the doctors handle the patients who need medical care for the purpose of diagnosis and treatment
