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The COVID-19 pandemic: what communities living through humanitarian crisis can teach us about compassionate care

A guest blog post by Rachel Coghlan, PhD candidate, Centre for Humanitarian Leadership, Deakin University

  • 6 May 2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic: what communities living through humanitarian crisis can teach us about compassionate care

COVID-19 presents an important opportunity to raise the urgency of palliative care in humanitarian emergencies. Rachel Coghlan, PhD candidate at the Centre for Humanitarian Leadership, shares her experience while visiting the Gaza Strip and highlights how persons living through humanitarian crises can teach us the importance of compassion and support for each other, especially to those suffering illness or dying.

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