![]() Unfortunately, the difficult task of creating a formal society by bringing together various personalities and physicians with varying ideas and interests, is still ongoing in the Philippines. The early history of the field is expected to end with the creation of an actual community of palliative care physicians and the creation of other specialist training programs by SHPM trained specialists. This exponential development and expansion of the PGH Program, allowed the program to train several specialists per year. ![]() This was followed by the rapid transformation and expansion of the UP-PGH program into an internationally recognized national academic center for the field of hospice and palliative medicine in the Philippines. Initial work focused mainly on creating a firm foundation within the UP-PGH, and in developing the basic academic training and service programs. ![]() Catherine Krings, a Family and Community Medicine specialist and the subsequent creation of the country's first first post-residency training program for hospice and palliative care. The second phase of the early history began with the creation of a hospice care program from a home care program at the country's national academic center for the health sciences, the University of the Philippines - Philippine General Hospital (UP-PGH) - mainly through the efforts of Dr. Programs in private hospitals either closed due to poor hospital support and low income generation, or were transformed into less than appropriate hospice care programs were services were limited in order to allow the care program to generate some immediate financial returns for physicians and institutions. Many programs which were dependent on the support of government and other charitable institutions closed due to lack of funding, while many of those which remained failed to significantly expand and upgrade their services to meet international standards. Unfortunately, the Philippines already lagged behind in the development of hospice and palliative care and there was not enough dedicated physician providers to organize and establish the medical specialty field.Īfter a period of early enthusiasm and growth, the early hospice care movement in the Philippines suffered from dwindling support from government and private institutions. After the difficult task of organizing the early hospice and palliative care physician providers from various medical fields, Dr Magno returned to the Philippines and began to strengthen the hospice care movement in the country. The concept of a distinct medical field of medical field of SHPM in the Philippines can be traced back to Dr Josefina Magno - a Filipino Oncologist who was one of the pioneers of the hospice movement in the States, and one of the founders of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine in 1988. As in other countries, hospice and palliative care in the Philippines first began with various types of supportive and hospice care programs for patients with debilitating, advanced and/or life limiting illness.
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