In the ruins of a health-care system, many medical facilities have become graveyards. Doctors continue to deliver lifesaving care—but they risk their own lives in the process.

Providing long-term care to patients suffering from cancer, paralysis, brain stroke and muscular dystrophy is increasingly becoming a challenge for families, especially as most members are working.

Glucose and Pulmonary Infection Group, St George’s, University of London, London, UK Correspondence to: Dr Emma Baker Reader in Clinical Pharmacology, Cardiac and Vascular Sciences, Physiological ...