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‘Virtual hospitals’ offer palliative care to monks

Priest Hospital offers programme to train monks nationwide to care for colleagues in final stage of life

Monks seek treatment at Priest Hospital in Bangkok. (File photo: Pawat Laupaisarntaksin)

The Priest Hospital has launched four virtual hospitals in Khon Kaen, Phichit, Nakhon Si Thammarat and Nonthaburi as a palliative care model for monks who have terminal illnesses.

Almost 10,000 of the country’s 240,000 monks were…

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