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Dr Yakubu Salifu, from the Faculty of Health and Medicine, was a registered nurse in both the UK and Ghana for 15 years. He has now launched COMPASS, a charity that aims to provide universal end-of-life care by the end of the decade.
READ MORE: Roald Dahl’s children's books to be stripped of race, gender and weight details to avoid causing offence According to the charity, a huge 86% of the Ghanaian population are without access to meaningful palliative and end-of-life care and 63 is the average age of death. It says that almost half of the population do not have health insurance and 30% of the population are facing significant journeys, often on foot, to their local hospital.
This approach centres on the creation of new palliative ward hubs within the main teaching hospitals in Kumasi and Accra. These wards will serve as centres of excellence and transfer palliative skills into mainstream clinical care and training. The charity will also establish small, agile Mobile Multidisciplinary Palliative Care Teams to work alongside patients and caregivers in hard-to-reach rural communities.
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