New work group to discuss end-of-life treatment culture clash

Communication about stopping treatment for ethnic minority patients who have no hope of recovery needs to improve, the head of the Dutch intensive care association NVIC has told broadcaster NOS. A new diversity work group will look into communicating policy around this and other issues, such as gender, to people with a ‘non-western’ background, IC chief Iwan van der Horst said. During the height of the coronavirus pandemic, dozens of Turkish patients who had been given up on by Dutch...