Pallium India meets up with the Lord Mayor of Belfast
With our friend and colleague Dr Max Watson, Pallium India’s consultant Dr Nandini Vallath had an audience with the Lord Mayor of Belfast, Councillor Nichola Mallon.
Dr Nandini Vallath reports:
“We spoke on the need for palliative care in India, the regulatory blocks that had existed for opioid availability, the work towards amending the law, the role of Trivandrum Institute of Palliative Sciences (TIPS) at the national level in terms of policy, medication availability and training.
We also spoke about Dr Max Watson’s role in the Essential certificate Course that is reaching out to thousands of professionals in India and his involvement with the integration of palliative care concepts into the undergraduate medical and nursing curricula”.
Dr Nandini has invited the Mayor of Belfast to visit TIPS.