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“Their suffering also plagues us”: a narrative ethnographic exploration of humanitarian healthcare workers’ moral experiences of providing pediatric palliative care in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
Yantzi R, Burza S, Hunt M, Wahoush O, Moll S, Hossain P, Hadiuzzaman M, Richardson K, Lamrous A, Rahman G, Sen Gupta P, Sagrado M, Schwartz L · Journal of International Humanitarian Action · 2026
This focused ethnography was conducted between March-August 2021 at the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Goyalmara Mother–Child Hospital in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, which serves the Rohingya refugee and Bangladeshi host community. Data collection involved participant-observation, individual interviews (22), focus group discussions (5), and analysis of protocols and other documents. In this paper, we present three composite stories which explore the meaning of empathy to international, Bangladeshi, and Rohingya MSF staff and their moral experiences of attempting to provide empathetic palliative care to children and their families in a humanitarian context.
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