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The wife of 60-year-old cancer patient U Ohn Myint touches his arm at the U Hla Tun Cancer Hospice on the outskirts of Yangon February 21, 2013. The U Hla Tun Hospice Foundation, founded in 1998, accepts terminally ill cancer patients discharged from government hospitals and provide them with relief from symptoms so the patient and family can preserve quality of life. The cost is high for government hospitals to treat serious diseases, and ... more 

The wife of 60-year-old cancer patient U Ohn Myint touches his arm at the U Hla Tun Cancer Hospice on the outskirts of Yangon February 21, 2013. The U Hla Tun Hospice Foundation, founded in 1998, accepts terminally ill cancer patients discharged from government hospitals and provide them with relief from symptoms so the patient and family can preserve quality of life. The cost is high for government hospitals to treat serious diseases, and patients are discharged when treatment is finished, according to head nurse Daw Naw Lar Htoo Aye. Patients do not receive enough care due to overcrowding at hospital cancer wards. Everything, including daily meals, medicine, burial and funeral rites, is free-of-charge at the hospice. Picture taken February 21, 2013. U Ohn Myint died two days after the picture was taken. REUTERS/Minzayar (MYANMAR - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY) less