Online Visit for Cancer Palliative Care Inpatients Funding for Terminal Purchase May 13 13:16
In order to allow inpatients who receive palliative care for cancer to visit their families online, while hospitals that limit visits to prevent infectious patients from being infected with the new coronavirus, purchase tablet terminals Crowdfunding to raise funds for the internet started on the 15th.
While there are a number of hospitals that limit visits with inpatients to prevent infections, it is said that dialogue with family members is important, especially for patients receiving palliative care for pain such as cancer. There are concerns about the impact.
For this reason, the group created by doctors who are in charge of palliative care has begun crowdfunding to collect funds for the purchase of tablet devices on the Internet in order to create an environment where people can meet face-to-face online.
Many of the patients who receive palliative care are elderly people and often do not have tablet terminals or smartphones, so first collect 3 million yen and distribute the tablet terminals to palliative care wards of about 20 medical facilities nationwide I am doing it.
As the group representative, Takeshi Hirohashi, director of the cancer treatment support and palliative care center of the Eiju General Hospital, where infections were one after another and the visits were actually limited, said: We hope that more people will know about our efforts as the new coronavirus problem continues for a long time. "
URL is "https://readyfor.jp/projects/palliative-care"