¿Por qué a los niños que están a punto de morir se les deniega la morfina en Senegal?

El programa Unreported World, de Channel 4, investiga por qué los pacientes con cáncer en África Occidental se ven privados de morfina. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

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In Africa, cancer now kills more people than malaria, Aids and tuberculosis combined. But tonight’s edition of this news strand from the developing world, the last in the series, reports on a health scandal in Senegal in which the needs of terminally ill cancer patients are being neglected.

Channel 4 newsreader Krishnan Guru-Murthy travels to the West African country to look at a bureaucratic system that is leaving patients to suffer in agony for no good reason. He cuts an impressive figure as he confronts a representative of the Senegalese National Pharmacy and the country’s health minister and visits several hospitals where the suffering of the patients makes for distressing viewing.

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