People's Daily: Approaching one's end care reflects life dignity

People's Daily: Approaching one's end care reflects life dignity
One no matter rich or poor, should quiet finally part of the way life of finishing walking getting honourable, this not only concerns the fundamental right of the life also concern the fair justice of the society A friend's father is over eighty years old, lung cancer excises the postoperative transformation, with cerebral thrombosis and sequela at the same time, lie in bed all day. Successively employed several nurses, all hated the trouble resigning. Several hospitals of connection, no would like to receive. Helpless, the old man can only live at home. Though family can arrange life, the torment that cancer aches can't be relieved. During the last time of the life, the old man is in severe pain. It is reported, Beijing geriatric hospital opened " the life shows loving care for the ward " recently ,Offer palliative treatment to patient in later period of hopeless case and die a natural death, care for mainly, this it is first Beijing that launch public hospital that approaching one's end care serve. But it's a pity, only there are 30 sick beds. To huge aged people, are tantamount to aing ridiculously inadequate effort to save a grave situation. Birth and old age,sickness and death is the natural law that can't be resisted. Medical research reveals, people are over 60, the hospitalization cost consumed accounts for more than 40% spent of all one's life, among them quite a few of expenses are in cost of the last month of life. Our country has already entered the senilization society, the old man exceeds 10% of total population over 60. It is predicted, by 2050, the old man will exceed 100 million people over 80. And the increase of aged population, increase that must bring disease and bear. Especially the life of the old man of serious illness is cared for at advanced age and medical attendance, the difficult point in the question of supporting parents more in the futurely. The life is a series of development, and the death is the terminal of the life. What is called approaching one's end care, mean that offers overall care to approaching one's end patient and cares for, thus make it survive quality raise, can finish moving last journey in life dignified when being comfortable and peaceful, this is embodiment of cultural and educational spirit of medical science. For a long time, as to a lot terminally ill old patients, clinical medicine has cost the expensive treatment expenses, though has delayed its process of death, however, this kind only pays close attention to disease and ignores the patient's inclination, have brought the agony to patient, has brought to society too heavily and born. With the progress of the social idea, the medical idea is changing. The purpose of traditional medical science is to cure disease, avoid the death; But the purpose of new medical science is to avoid dying early, serene death. New medical science is from pursuing and lengthening the life to turn simply to the improvement of whole care and life quality to people, from the simple treatment to treat and show loving care for and regard as equally important. So, the supreme realm of medical science is not to prevent and delay the death, but give death quiet and dignity. Our country is aged first big countries of people of world, but the approaching one's end care organization is insufficient seriously, it is difficult to satisfy the social demand increased day by day. How could this kind of current situation change? The expert points out, quantity of the public hospital of our country is much, the subject problem is that functions and overall arrangement are unreasonable. At present, a lot of second hospitals and patient of hospital of enterprise are insufficient, it is difficult to survive. If the government guides rationally, transfer some public hospitals to the health care for the aged or hospice, can fill in the blank of market, can vitalize state-run assets too. Meanwhile, the government should also accelerate issuing the preferential policy, encourage, support and lead more folk capital to enter the approaching one's end care field, thus solve the government and invest the insufficient problem and meet public diversification, multi-level demand. Certainly, approaching one's end care is a medical question, it is a social concern too. Our country, while entering the senilization society fast, difficult problem of still facing the disparity in urban and rural areas, not rich and old first etc.. In U.S.A., 80% of the old men die in the hospital, can enjoy approaching one's end care to serve. And the national conditions of China are different, the national power can not be reached either, it is still the mode of mainly supporting parents to support parents at home, especially in the remote rural area, food and clothing some old men have not well solved yet, let alone medical attendance. However, in any case, set up the approaching one's end care system of the distinct Chinese characteristics, has already become an urgent subject. Because one no matter rich or poor, should quiet finally part of the way life of finishing walking honourable, this not only concerns the fundamental right of the life also concern the fair justice of the society.

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