Dr Anne Merriman, who has died aged 90, was a former nun from Liverpool known as “the mother of palliative care in Africa”. She revolu­tionised end-of-life care in low-income countries by devising a ...

In a small home in Uganda's capital, Jane Mwesige, a nurse with a hospice that has transformed African end-of-life care, ...

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A medical doctor and former nun, she found an affordable way to expand palliative care in the developing world, bringing pain ...

“Building El Sueño: Isabel Merriman, Sarah Winchester, and the California Dream,” runs June 26-Nov. 30. The exhibition takes ...

Known in Africa as “the mother of palliative care,” she established a model for pain management and end-of-life care.