Published on: May 23, 2018

“A chronic lack of opioid drugs leaves millions of people throughout the developing world to live and die in unrelenting, excruciating pain. It is a particularly bitter irony in India, which historically had the world’s biggest legal opium poppy industry.”

Listen to the broadcast by BBC World Service on the lack of opioids and access to palliative care in India: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswgkf

Also please read the article by Justin Rowlatt, South Asia correspondent, BBC: Why are so many people denied the painkillers they need?

Thank you, Laurence Knight, Justin Rowlatt and Varun Nayar of British Broadcasting Corporation, for bringing the issue to global attention and supporting our efforts to overcome it.