True, a lot of suffering is caused by professionals being unaware of principles of pain management. But when they are indeed aware of pain management, [...]
In the APLI newsletter, Wendy Salmon talks about doctors’ refusal to accept the inevitability of death. She keeps on hearing the words, “it is not [...]
Project Hamrahi is a collaborative project of Australasia Palliative Link International (APLI) and Pallium India. A doctor-nurse team from Australia or New Zealand gets linked [...]
We are glad to report progress in our petition to the Kerala State Human Rights Commission. The Commission has asked the Government of Kerala to [...]
When we reported the Amendment of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act in February 2014, the global palliative care community rejoiced with us. [...]
We are proud to announce that the Chairman of Pallium India, Dr M R Rajagopal, has been invited to the Governing Council of the Kerala [...]
The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has the huge task of controlling abuse of opioids. But the board believes in and promotes the principle of [...]
On 2nd June, 2014, newspapers across Kerala carried a report that a family of three was found dead in a hospital in Kanhangad. As per [...]
“People only die once,” says Dr Taranjit Singh in his article “Improving quality of life of dying patients” in the Tribune dated 26 June 2014. [...]
Some of our readers may remember Rahmath, an exceptional patient under our treatment, who smilingly went through agonising pain and eventually succumbed to the disease [...]
