Peking University, April 5, 2022:
Wang Xiaodong, second from left, director of the hospice care center of the Peking University Shougang Hospital, talks with a patient on April 1, 2022. The center with 14 beds is the first of such centers at a tertiary hospital. Covering an area of 1,020 square meters, it started providing services in March 2017, and has provided services to more than 2,000 tumor patients at the terminal stage. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chinadaily.com.cn]
Nurses exchange conditions of patients at the hospice care center of the Peking University Shougang Hospital on April 1, 2022. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chinadaily.com.cn]
A wall of medical workers at the hospice care center of the Peking University Shougang Hospital, on April 1, 2022. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chinadaily.com.cn]
Sun Wenxi, chief nurse, holds the hand of a patient, while another nurse checks her condition at the hospice care center of the Peking University Shougang Hospital, on April 1, 2022. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chinadaily.com.cn]
Nurse Zhang Xufang checks the drip for a patient at the hospice care center of the Peking University Shougang Hospital, on April 1, 2022. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chinadaily.com.cn]
Nurses communicate with each other during a break at the hospice care center of the Peking University Shougang Hospital, on April 1, 2022. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chinadaily.com.cn]2-6
A patient passes by a wishing tree at the hospice care center of the Peking University Shougang Hospital, on April 1, 2022. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chinadaily.com.cn]
Two medical social workers Tian Hongyang, left, and Yan Xinhong talks about the logs of hospital rounds at the hospice care center of the Peking University Shougang Hospital, on April 1, 2022. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chinadaily.com.cn]
