Perceptions And Challenges Of Healthcare Workers In Making Ethical Decisions Of Withholding And Withdrawing Life Support From Terminally Ill Patient In Tertiary Hospital, Mwanza Region- Northwestern Tanzania

Authors

NDAKIBAE GABRIEL MABEGA, Mwanza College of Health and Allied Sciences
Paschal Ruggajo, Aga Khan UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Department

Internal Medicine (East Africa)

Abstract

Background: Making ethical decisions in Withholding and withdrawing life support measures from terminally ill patients are challenges in clinical practice. Still there is no consensus around the world. In Tanzania, there is neither guideline nor legal frameworks governing the practice.

Methods: Aim: The aim of the study was to explore the perceptions and ethical challenges of healthcare workers in making ethical decisions of withholding and withdrawing life supportive measures from terminally ill patients.

Results: A healthcare workers perceptions varies in decisions of withholding and withdrawing life supportive measures from terminally ill patients.

Conclusions: Decisions of withholding and withdrawing life support measures from terminally ill patients face many challenges. Lack of legal and ethical framework to guide the practices inhibits the ethical decisions of physicians and nurses.

Comments

This work was published before the author joined Aga Khan University.

Publication (Name of Journal)

Research Square

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-16697/v1

Recommended Citation

MABEGA, N. G., Ruggajo, P. (2020). Perceptions And Challenges Of Healthcare Workers In Making Ethical Decisions Of Withholding And Withdrawing Life Support From Terminally Ill Patient In Tertiary Hospital, Mwanza Region- Northwestern Tanzania. Research Square.
Available at: https://ecommons.aku.edu/eastafrica_fhs_mc_intern_med/410