Doing our best and doing no harm: A focused ethnography of staff moral experiences of providing palliative care at a Medecins Sans Frontieres pediatric hospital in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Goyalmara Hospital in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh is a referral centre offering the highest level of care available in the Rohingya camps for pediatrics and neonatology. Efforts are underway to integrate pediatric palliative care due to high mortality and medical complexity of patients, yet little is known about the experiences of staff delivering palliative and end-of-life care. The purpose of this study was to understand the moral experiences of MSF staff to inform program planning and implementation.

Methods

This focused ethnography was conducted between March-August 2021 at Goyalmara Hospital. Data collection involved participant-observation, individual interviews (22), focus group discussions (5), and analysis of documents inc

SUBMITTER: Yantzi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10358957 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature