#3 Palliative care of COVID-19 patients in low resource settings

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.