Kerala Human Rights Commission takes a step to preserve the rights of the suffering
We had reported to you the sad suicide of a whole family in Kanhangad, Kerala, last June.
Pallium India had approached the Kerala Human Rights Commission with some specific requests. We are glad to report that the commission’s order on the petition has now come out. It points out the Kerala state palliative care policy which stipulates that “Each district must have a tertiary level pain and palliative care service with a trained doctor and staff nurse either in a medical college or in a district hospital. They should have specialist and in-patient palliative care services.”
Read the Human rights commission G.O. or the translated version.
The commission asks the Government to ensure that every district has at least one hospital with a palliative care centre, and a doctor trained in palliative care. It also asks the government to make use of the services of the non-government organizations for this purpose. The commission’s order also asks private hospitals with more than 20 inpatient beds to have at least one doctor with a minimum of ten days training in pain management and to make essential medicines like morphine available.
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