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Case Reports
Challenges of Providing Palliative and End-of-Life Care to Refugee Claimants in Canada: A Case Report.
- Mohamed Abdelaal, Christopher Blake, and Jenny Lau.
- Department of Palliative Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- J Palliat Med. 2021 Apr 1; 24 (4): 635-638.
AbstractRefugees are a highly vulnerable marginalized population with unique medical and psychosocial needs. Unfortunately, the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP) in Canada partially covers the medical needs of refugee claimants but does not include hospice or home-based palliative care. This report describes the case of a refugee claimant cancer patient who was admitted to an inpatient tertiary cancer center medical oncology ward in Ontario, Canada, for ∼11 months due to insufficient community-based palliative care resources available for patients covered by the IFHP. This case report highlights the differences in palliative care coverage between the provincial health care coverage, Ontario Health Insurance Plan, and federal health care coverage for refugees, IFHP, from a practical point of view, how this can affect the palliative care available for patients and their families, and the impact on the Canadian health care system.
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