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cord-323507-u28g423o	Ofosu-Poku, Rasheed	Preparing a young palliative care unit for the COVID-19 pandemic in a teaching hospital in Ghana	2020-06-24		.txt	text/plain	1457	87	63	The emergence of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has necessitated an interim restructuring of the healthcare system in accordance with public health preventive measures to mitigate spread of the virus while providing essential healthcare services to the public. This article discusses how the Palliative Care Team of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Ghana has modified its services in accordance with public health guidelines. The potential challenges in the bereavement period for this family could be dealing with the 'stigma' of their loved one dying of COVID-19 and the emotional trauma of not being able to perform death rituals for their loved one ("End coronavirus stigma now," 2020; World Health Organization, 2020a, 2020c). In order to meet the palliative care needs of critically ill patients with COVID-19, the following strategy (illustrated in Figure 1 ) was developed after discussions with the COVID teaman interdisciplinary team of doctors and nurses in public health Rasheed Ofosu-Poku et al. World Health Organization (2020a) Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Situation Report -35	./cache/cord-323507-u28g423o.txt	./txt/cord-323507-u28g423o.txt