“It is precisely because we are a poor country that we cannot afford not to do research,” said Jawaharlal Nehru. So meaningful. Do we really [...]
Dr Nandini Vallath, Pallium India’s consultant, writes: “Law is codified common sense.” This is the sentence that remains uppermost in my mind when I think of [...]
We are determined; we will reduce the pain burden in India. India’s new opioid law came into being in 2014. The government of India completed [...]
Most of the North and North-East of India have very little palliative care. Hence we are particularly happy to report of the progress in the [...]
“You don’t need a law to provide palliative care”, says Lawyer Girish Gokhale. Hey, medical system, sit up and listen. Mr Gokhale, your question shames [...]
Pallium India’s half-way home for people with spinal cord injury helps in physical, social and psychological rehabilitation. One of our aims is to help them to [...]
“In India, the poor die in agony in neglect, the middle-class die in agony in ignorance and the rich die in agony on a ventilator. [...]
Dear Friends, Health ministry’s draft law confuses between euthanasia and withdrawal of life support In an article titled “Don’t Torture The Dying: Health ministry’s draft [...]
“If you have been in palliative care long enough in India, the sight of a person with an ugly scar around the neck would not [...]
The author asks her mother, “By the way, when I die, I want this-and-this to be done. I don’t want that-and-that to be done. How [...]
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