'The team get upset with me because I keep saying 'I've got to get this done before I pop my clogs'' Meet the British ex-nun who invented cheap form of morphine and is now calling for better end-of-life care
“The UK did not see the same issue as the US with oxycodone addiction and therefore we have not had the same pushback in prescribing,” she told. “There is no evidence of patient suffering associated with lack of access to analgesia in the UK.a prescription pain medication – an opioid drug, like morphine, codeine and methadone. It is found in several products in combination with other drugs.
When Ms Merriman MBE and her team arrived in Uganda in 1993 they were desperate to help people but were warned they were “killing them”. After the authorities in Uganda saw the immense relief that Ms Merriman and others were providing to people dying from diseases such as HIV and Aids and cancer, they were allowed to continue. Hospice Africa Uganda and “the Merriman model”, were unveiled in September 1993.Ms Merriman, who had her fourth heart attack in 2021, was inspired by the work of Dame Cicely Saunders, who set up St Christopher’s Hospice in south London and founded the modern hospice movement in 1967.
While there is the eventual promise of eliminating cervical cancer in the UK and other places, it’s now Uganda’s single most common cancer type. Incidence is three times higher than the global rate, according to the Global Cancer Observatory. Because of this, in 2014 Uganda became the world’s first country to allow nurses to legally prescribe morphine.
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