The patient group protests on the poster of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is promoting efforts to discuss medical care and care desired at the final stage of life with the family, but protests and opinions from the patient association etc. successively as the poster enlightening this is content that hurts patients and bereaved families It is out. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare says "I want to confirm the opinions received and consider future responses."
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has promoted the spread of the “life meeting”, an effort to discuss with the family and doctors about the medical care and care desired in the final stage of life, and released a poster for enlightenment on the 25th.
In the poster, a talented person, Chitoyo Ogura, lay down with an oxygen inhaler on a hospital bed, played a patient who had not communicated enough with the family and had a life meeting. I am joking and calling for this.
About this poster, patient associations and others expressed a series of opinions that it was hurting patients and bereaved families, and among these, Miho Kataki, representative of the ovarian cancer patient association `` Smiley '', wrote a document requesting improvement from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare Sent.
The document shows understanding of the efforts themselves, while the poster says, “To patients who struggle with treatment and feel that the time left is not long, or to bereaved families who are deeply saddened to talk to patients. Is not considered. "
Hiromi Tsuji, a representative of the Gastric Cancer Patient Association “Meeting of Hope” and a member of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare's Cancer Countermeasures Promotion Council, has been worried about his posters based on his experience of seeing her husband. In order to hurt my heart, I sent a document to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare to rethink the enlightenment method.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare says, “I would like to confirm what I pointed out that there was not enough consideration, and consider future responses.”