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Senegal: Pain Relief a Distant Dream

Human Rights Watch says Senegal currently stocks only enough morphine - an inexpensive and commonly used opiate for treating moderate-to-severe pain - for around 200 patients each year.
Angela Chung/Human Rights Watch

During a morphine shortage, a cancer patient in Dakar clutches onto the railing of her hospital bed because she is in pain and the medication she needs is unavailable.

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