Is there need for a desensitization program for patients who shared the same ward with a late colleague?

It is Saturday morning, and though still battling a sleep deficit from last night’s ordeals in the Casualty Emergency Room, I have to head to my new residency posting at the National Tuberculosis and leprosy Program (NTLP) in-patient wards. The “aha” insight central to the theme of this filler is birthed in two occurrences on my first day here.While patients in most Western and developed country settings enjoy a relatively better nursing privacy, the picture in most developing and especially African hospitals is that of an open aura-except of course in a few private settings.