PALPRAC co-hosts South Africa’s first joint palliative care conference

In this Daily Maverick op-ed, PALPRAC’s Dr Julia Ambler writes with co-organisers from Palliative Care for Children South Africa and the Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa about the first national conference bringing the three organisations together. The piece sets out how few South Africans, particularly children, currently have access to palliative care, and argues it should be everyone’s responsibility rather than a specialist field.