Palliative Care in Brazil Karen Ferreira Patella, Renata Salgado Leme, Rosa Maria Ferreiro Pinto

Abstract

Palliative care promotes assistance, through a multidisciplinary team, in order to improve the quality of life for patients and families in the face of noncommunicable diseases. In Brasil, palliative care took place by Portaria 3.535, of September 2, 1998, wich registered the institutions that worked in oncology palliation. In our country, palliative care can´t be offered to the majority of the population and there is stil a lack of legal measures to offer it. This paper aims to clarify that palliation is necessary and shoould be offered without restriction as a human right.