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Saying Goodbye With Dignity

July 6, 2016

“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. [...]
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July 2016

June 30, 2016

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 [...]
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Minimum palliative care standards for health care?

June 30, 2016

“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 [...]
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An important conversation to have

June 28, 2016

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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International Update on Pain Management at Dehradun

June 28, 2016

Mr Sathyanarayan Das, Under Secretary, Department of Revenue, Government of India, was the chief guest at an opioid-access workshop held in Dehradun on 25 June, [...]
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Discrimination in the name of a diagnosis

June 27, 2016

Would anyone argue against a statement that people with chronic pain generally suffer enormously through their lives? Except that they look okay and that they [...]
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Training the Trainers – We are increasing capacity!

June 27, 2016

In a bid to increase the capacity for advocacy and training in palliative care, Pallium India organized a “training of trainers” program in Delhi for [...]
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One step forward for the Non-Communicable Disease program of India.

June 26, 2016

In what we see as an important step in the Government Program for Prevention and Control of Non Communicable Diseases, J. P Nadda, the Hon’ble [...]
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Health ministry’s draft law confuses between euthanasia and withdrawal of life support

June 21, 2016

In an article titled “Don’t Torture The Dying: Health ministry’s draft law confuses between euthanasia and withdrawal of life support”, Dr M. R. Rajagopal writes in [...]
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A Tragedy of Errors – Neglect, Bad Advice or Ignorance?

June 21, 2016

In a village, a small boy is bitten by a snake. A tragedy of errors ensues, arising from a fatal combination of neglect, bad advice, [...]


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