MAID legislation not implemented: forced transfers for the terminally ill

Too often patients are being forced to leave the publicly-funded hospitals or hospices where they have been receiving end-of-life care because those institutions refuse to allow medically-assisted death on their premises.

Forced transfers have a negative impact on MAID practitioners who care deeply about providing end-of-life care consistent with a patient-centred approach, write Norma Greenaway and Sherry Moran. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY NORMA GREENAWAY, SHERRY MORAN

September 4, 2024

Many gravely ill people who have been approved for a medically assisted death in Canada (MAID) are being deprived of their wish for a peaceful exit surrounded by loved ones. Instead, their agony is being prolonged. Too often they are being forced to leave the publicly-funded...

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