#140 – Palliative care in low resource and fragile settings
With Dr Mhoira Leng
Compassionate care for the whole person is at the heart of palliative care. Walking alongside people and their families facing chronic illness and into the end of their lives is an immense privilege. In many parts of the world this care is not available representing one of the greatest health inequalities.
In other situations, economic, cultural and political pressures can undermine values orientated, faith based holistic care.
In Jesus we have the ultimate example of compassionate holistic care... how do we reflect his example in how we approach suffering and how we care for those those in pain?
Dr Mhoira Leng
Dr Leng is a specialist palliative care physician and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and Glasgow. She is the Head of Palliative Care in Makerere University, Uganda, and Medical Director of Cairdeas International Palliative Care Trust, Scotland.
Dr Leng trained in internal medicine at Aberdeen University before specialising in Palliative Medicine. She took up a senior consultant and honorary senior lecturer position at Aberdeen University for 10 years and has a particular interest in international palliative care. Since 1998, she has travelled extensively within India and to Eastern Europe and Africa as well.
She left the NHS in 2005 to work full time in international settings where she comes alongside partners in the developing world to build capacity, offer mentorship, support curriculum development and new models of care. She also helps coordinate and is a faculty member of the Developing Health Course for CMF UK.
