Palliative Care at the University Hospital Center Mohammed VI of Marrakech: Activity Report

Abstract

Palliative care is an active, continuous, evolving care, coordinated and practiced by a multidisciplinary team. Palliative care is aimed at people suffering from serious, progressive, life-threatening illnesses whose progression to the advanced and terminal stages exceeds current therapeutic resources. This study is an activity report of the palliative care department at the University Hospital Center Mohammed VI, its aim is to prepare the inventory, raise the main constraints and suggestions for management. They are multiple, varied and located at several levels of the supported. They mainly relate to the human and material resources made available to the service and organizational order. These constraints constitute real opportunities for improvement which must call on all those responsible involved or concerned by cancerous pathology in order to to improve service performance.